The benefits, ESOP, and executive compensation practice at K&L Gates provides employers from all sizes and industries the full range of employe benefit advice and counsel. The department is led from San Francisco by Rikki Sapolich-Krol and the ‘approachable, responsive, and super knowledgeable’ Karrie Johnson Diaz from Seattle, who specialize in structuring and administrating benefit plans and compensation arrangements, and qualified retirement plan design as well as compliance and reporting issues related to the Affordable Care Act and COBRA respectively. The executive compensation expert on the team is San Francisco’s Ali Nardali, and the team’s leading associate from Seattle is Jennifer Addis, who has experience working with 401(k)s and other defined benefit pension plans.
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‘Karrie Diaz and her team are approachable, responsive, and super knowledgeable on all things retirement plan.’
‘Karrie Diaz is exceptional. Her ability to put complex retirement plan matters into easy to comprehend language and providing common-sense approaches and solutions to problems are some of thereasons why I choose working with her.’
Clients clés
- The Seer Group
- Children’s Home Society of Washington (d/b/a Akin)
- Fresnel Software Corporation
- Herc Rentals
- Falfurrias Capital Partners
- Saltchuk Resources, Inc.
- Axonics
Points forts
- Advised Saltchuk Resources, Inc. in connection with its pending acquisition of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (NYSE: OSG).
- Advised Axonics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AXNX) in its definitive agreement to be acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX).
Avocats
Responsable de la pratique
Rikki A. Sapolich-Krol; Karrie Johnson Diaz
Autres avocats clés
Ali Nardali; Jennifer Addis