Laura Ryan

Laura is a partner in firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group. She focuses her practice on the design, maintenance and termination of tax-qualified retirement plans and trusts; analysis of employee benefit issues in the context of corporate mergers and acquisitions; welfare plan and flexible benefit plan administration and documentation; various aspects of executive compensation including establishment and maintenance of non-qualified deferred compensation plans; IRS and Department of Labor plan audits; governmental reporting obligations; compliance with ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules; and corrective actions under regulatory relief programs. · Thompson Hine LLP

United StatesEmployee Benefits & Executive Compensation, ERISA Litigation

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Laura Ryan is a partner at Thompson Hine LLP, focusing on employee benefits and executive compensation. Her practice covers tax-qualified retirement plans, executive compensation, ERISA compliance, and employee benefit issues in corporate transactions.

Practice areas

Employee Benefits & Executive CompensationERISA LitigationPrivacy & Cybersecurity

Office

United States

Thompson Hine LLP · Laura is a partner in firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group. She focuses her practice on the design, maintenance and termination of tax-qualified retirement plans and trusts; analysis of employee benefit issues in the context of corporate mergers and acquisitions; welfare plan and flexible benefit plan administration and documentation; various aspects of executive compensation including establishment and maintenance of non-qualified deferred compensation plans; IRS and Department of Labor plan audits; governmental reporting obligations; compliance with ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules; and corrective actions under regulatory relief programs.

United States

Expertise

Tax-Qualified Retirement PlansExecutive CompensationERISA ComplianceEmployee Benefit Issues in Mergers and AcquisitionsWelfare Plan AdministrationFlexible Benefit PlansNon-Qualified Deferred CompensationIRS and DOL AuditsGovernmental Reporting ObligationsCorrective Actions under Regulatory Relief Programs

Education

University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 1992
Northern Kentucky University, B.S., 1989, cum laude