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Kendra Roberson is special counsel in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group.
Ms. Roberson has experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of employee benefits matters including tax-qualified retirement plans, employee stock ownership plans, executive compensation arrangements, stock option and other equity-based compensation plans, cafeteria plans, VEBAs, self-insured medical plans, and other health and welfare plans. Her experience includes plan design and drafting, regulatory compliance, ERISA litigation, and handling employee benefits matters and plans in corporate transactions. In addition, Ms. Roberson has extensive experience advising employers and state governments on compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”).
Representative Matters
- Advise State regarding key issues to consider in establishing its health benefit exchange.
- Advised Fortune 500 companies on qualified plan mergers, severance benefits, excess parachute payments and other employee benefit matters arising from acquisitions of other companies.
- Assist employer sponsors of tax-qualified pension and profit sharing plans with correction of operational and document errors under U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service voluntary correction programs.
- Advise companies and non-profit organizations regarding the implications of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code on non-qualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements.
Pro Bono
- Developed a proposal for environmental advocacy group regarding new regulations for the allocation of timber concessions in Liberia.
- Advised a Virginia citizen's organization concerned with the environmental impacts of a proposed access and parking development project to be implemented by the U.S. Park Service.
Memberships and Affiliations
- American Bar Association Section of Taxation, Employee Benefits Committee
Publications and Speeches
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