Emily D. Zimmer

Career

Emily counsels clients on a wide range of employee benefit and executive compensation issues, including issues related to corporate mergers and acquisitions. She routinely advises on the design, implementation, and administration of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans and welfare benefit programs, including wellness programs, health care accounts such as HRAs, Health FSAs and HSAs, adoption reimbursement programs, and educational assistance programs. Emily also provides compliance advice, including with respect to reporting and disclosure requirements, ACA compliance obligations, COBRA benefit continuation rights, and HIPAA portability, nondiscrimination, privacy, and security issues.

Emily assists clients across diverse industries with a particular emphasis on financial services, energy, higher education, and health care. Her work with higher education institutions has included assisting clients with unique issues presented under the ACA’s employer mandate, including with respect to student employees. Emily also helps clients in the health care industry navigate complex benefit plan issues arising due to the client’s status as both an employer and a provider, including unique provider/plan contracting and fiduciary duty issues and HIPAA privacy and security considerations given HIPAA’s impacts on both the client and the client’s group health plans as different types of covered entities.