Mary Powell

Practice Areas

Lauded by Chambers as having “exceptional client management skills” and a “very diligent and detail-oriented” approach, Mary has two decades of experience in all aspects of employee benefits.

Currently, her main focus is assisting employers with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drafting executive compensation and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. She designs and drafts voluntary and involuntary severance plans. Mary assists employers with obtaining Private Letter Rulings from the IRS and she submits comments to the IRS and Department of Labor both prior to the issuance of regulations and in response to proposed guidance issued by those agencies.

Mary has extensive experience in handling benefit plans in mergers and acquisitions. Her clients include large publicly-held companies and complex multi-entity health care organizations. Mary has lectured frequently on ACA and executive compensation topics for many clients and organizations including Western Pension and Benefits Conference, the San Francisco Bar Association and the Bay Area Chapter of the National Institute of Pension Administrators. For many years she was a contributing author to the ABA Labor Section’s Employee Benefits Law, published by BNA.