Mary E. Powell

Director

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Mary has over a decade of experience in employee benefits issues and specializes in all aspects of employee benefits.  Today, her main focus is executive compensation, nonqualified deferred compensation, health plans and retirement plans.  Mary negotiates and prepares employment agreements.  She designs and drafts voluntary severance plans and involuntary severance plans.  Mary advises clients on the application of sections 409A, 280G and 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, as well as other taxation issues related to compensation.

Mary has extensive experience in handling benefit plans in mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.  Her clients include large publicly-held companies and complex multi-entity health care organizations.  Mary has lectured frequently on employee benefits and executive compensation topics for many 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.

Mary is involved in many community activities including serving on the Board of Directors for Presidio Knolls School and serving on parent committees at the Chinese American International School (CAIS).


Telephone

(415) 788-3111

Facsimile

(415) 421-2017

E-Mail

Education

  • LL.M. in Taxation, with distinction, 1999
    Georgetown University Law Center
  • J. D., with honors, 1996
    Golden Gate University
  • B.A., Rhetoric and Philosophy,1993,
    • Willamette University

Professional Career

  • 2001 - Present
    Director (Associate prior to 2005)
    Trucker Huss
    San Francisco, California
  • 1999 - 2001
    Associate
    Cooley Godward LLP
    Palo Alto, California

Professional Licenses and Affiliations

  • Member, The State Bar of California
  • Past President, Bay Area Chapter of the National Institute of Pension Administrators
  • Member, American Bar Association (Contributing Author, Labor Section’s Employee Benefits Law)
  • Member, Bar Association of San Francisco
  • Member, Los Angeles IRS/Practitioners Benefits Conference (Past Member of Steering Committee)
  • Member, Western Pension & Benefits Conference