Erin Turley

Overview

Erin Turley focuses her practice on employee benefits matters. She has extensive experience handling issues pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Erin is a member of the Firm-wide Management Committee.

With respect to ERISA, Erin focuses on employee benefits, including qualified, nonqualified, and executive and deferred compensation and welfare benefit plans, as well as on regulatory compliance with the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). She also advises employers on the design, implementation and administration of tax-qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, and health and welfare benefit plans.

Erin regularly represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor in audit and correction matters and has successfully concluded over five large case audits by the IRS for both publicly traded and privately held plan sponsors auditing their health and welfare plan compliance. Erin is experienced in working with employers, vendors and health plans to design and implement a variety of health and welfare plans structures including medical, prescription drug, wellness programs, disability, mental health benefits, cafeteria plans health reimbursement arrangements and health savings accounts and consumer-directed health plans such. She also has experience in other welfare benefit programs including commuter benefit plans and paid time off banks. She also advises employers on issues raised in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures as they relate to the various benefit plans maintained by the affected corporate entity or entities.

Erin focuses her Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) practice on the design and implementation of ESOP transactions and provides ongoing legal counsel to ESOP-owned companies. She has been involved in hundreds of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, and the structuring and financing of ESOPs using private equity. Erin also has extensive experience representing lenders in designing and negotiating credit facilities specifically tailored to the needs of ESOP-owned companies.

Erin writes and speaks frequently on ERISA and ESOP issues.

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Results

Health and Welfare Results

Advised a state bar association in the design and implementation of a private healthcare exchange for its association members
Advised Fortune 1,000 company that operates in all fifty states with respect to the freezing of its retiree medical plan and implementation of a retiree health reimbursement plan
Advised Fortune 500 company with respect to the design and implementation of a consumer-directed health plan option as a health plan offering

Recognitions

Fellow of The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC)
The Best Lawyers in America 2008 to 2020, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Super Lawyers (ERISA)

Community

American Bar Association, Tax Section Subcommittee, chair
Dallas Bar Association
Texas Bar Association

Credentials

Education
Georgetown University Law Center, LLM, with distinction, 1996
Texas Tech University, JD, magna cum laude, 1994
University of Dallas, BA, 1989

Admissions
Texas

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