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Julia Ann Love

Julia leads the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice and has more than 30 years of experience providing proactive and practical advice to businesses on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, including ERISA compliance, defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, health and welfare plans, executive employment agreements and non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements. She advises publicly traded companies, privately held companies and non-profit corporations in the Cleveland, Ohio area and nationwide from a variety of industries including technology, banking, retail, and manufacturing which gives her insight into best practices and emerging trends in various industries. Julia has significant experience with respect to defined benefit pension plan de-risking transactions, including lump sum windows for deferred vested participants, annuity purchases and pension plan terminations having advised on over 20 such transactions. Julia also has significant experience with respect to employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions and post-closing integration matters, including unique issues relating to stock and asset acquisitions and merger transactions. Julia also frequently advises clients with respect to unique issues relating to multiple and multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans such as negotiation of participation agreements and withdrawal liability issues. · Thompson Hine LLP

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About

Julia Ann Love leads Thompson Hine LLP's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice, with over 30 years of experience advising businesses on employee benefits, executive compensation, ERISA compliance, retirement plans, health and welfare plans, and executive compensation arrangements. She advises clients in industries including technology, banking, retail, and manufacturing and has extensive experience in pension plan de-risking transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Practice area

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Office

United States

Thompson Hine LLP · Julia leads the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice and has more than 30 years of experience providing proactive and practical advice to businesses on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, including ERISA compliance, defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, health and welfare plans, executive employment agreements and non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements. She advises publicly traded companies, privately held companies and non-profit corporations in the Cleveland, Ohio area and nationwide from a variety of industries including technology, banking, retail, and manufacturing which gives her insight into best practices and emerging trends in various industries. Julia has significant experience with respect to defined benefit pension plan de-risking transactions, including lump sum windows for deferred vested participants, annuity purchases and pension plan terminations having advised on over 20 such transactions. Julia also has significant experience with respect to employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions and post-closing integration matters, including unique issues relating to stock and asset acquisitions and merger transactions. Julia also frequently advises clients with respect to unique issues relating to multiple and multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans such as negotiation of participation agreements and withdrawal liability issues.

United States

Expertise

Employee Benefits & Executive CompensationERISA ComplianceRetirement PlansHealth and Welfare PlansExecutive CompensationPension Plan De-RiskingMergers and AcquisitionsMulti-Employer Pension PlansTechnologyBankingRetailManufacturing

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1994, cum laude
  • Boston University, B.A., 1991, magna cum laude