We have a pre-approved plan document that requires participating employers to adopt the plan by signing a Participation Agreement, which is also signed by the signatory employer.
Participating Employer X and the signatory employer signed a Participation Agreement properly in 2012, and again to mark Participating Employer X's cessation of participation in 2015.
During the restatement process, it has been discovered that Participating Employer X is now totally out of business.
Participating Employers are supposed to sign a Participation Agreement for the plan right now, in order to adopt the terms of the restated, pre-approved plan. But Participating Employer X does not exist. The pre-approved plan does not address this situation.
Do others think that it would be sufficient for the signatory employer to add a note to the restated plan indicating that the Participating Employer cannot be found, and attach the old Participation Agreement that was originally signed?
Thanks.