Allison Perry focuses on employee benefits, executive compensation, and employment tax, drawing on eight years of in-house experience as the lead employment tax advisor for Shell in the United States and 15 prior years in private practice. Allison works with clients of all sizes on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, employment agreements, severance arrangements, change-in-control agreements, equity-based compensation, deferred compensation, incentive compensation, welfare benefit plans, other fringe benefit arrangements, and the implications of IRC Sections 162(m), 409A, and 280G. Her work spans the full lifecycle of employee benefit and executive compensation arrangements — from design and implementation through administration and compliance — including non-discrimination requirements, contributions and distributions, plan amendments, and voluntary compliance program submissions.

Clients and colleagues regularly turn to her for guidance on qualified plan corrections. She is also well known for her work on ERISA compliance matters, including fiduciary duties in plan administration and termination, disclosure and filing requirements, Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, and avoidance of prohibited transactions. She has appeared before the IRS and Department of Labor on behalf of clients in connection with their plans.

Allison also handles compensation and benefits issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions and other public and private company transactions.