The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which was signed into law on March 11, 2021, provides substantial assistance in maintaining health care coverage for individuals who may have lost that coverage in connection with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Photo of Stephanie D. Ahmad Stephanie D. Ahmad

Stephanie D. Ahmad strives to help employers navigate complex benefits issues with confidence and peace of mind. Her practice focuses on employee benefits and ERISA, including health and welfare and retirement benefits. Stephanie has been recognized as a Rising Star by The Legal

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Stephanie D. Ahmad strives to help employers navigate complex benefits issues with confidence and peace of mind. Her practice focuses on employee benefits and ERISA, including health and welfare and retirement benefits. Stephanie has been recognized as a Rising Star by The Legal 500 in Benefit Plan Design. She has helped teams at Greenberg Traurig obtain recognition as a highly regarded firm in Benefit Plan Design and in ERISA Litigation. Stephanie works with a team of talented benefits and compensation practitioners, always with the goal of providing high quality support to clients.

Stephanie represents companies undergoing health benefits audits before the Department of Labor. She works with clients to meet compliance obligations and reduce the likelihood of or impact of an audit. Stephanie litigates ERISA cases in federal court, utilizing the GT platform to work in jurisdictions across the United States. She seeks to secure favorable outcomes for clients and is mindful of managing sensitive employee relations issues. Stephanie also supports mergers and acquisitions by performing employee benefits related transactional due diligence.

Stephanie has experience in the design, implementation, restatement, amendment, and review of health and welfare benefit plans, cafeteria plans, fringe benefit plans, and retirement plans. She regularly counsels clients on compliance with health care reform, laws impacting benefits and benefit plans, and related tax implications. She also regularly advises clients on U.S. leave laws.

Before joining GT, Stephanie served as a law clerk to Judge Harry Pregerson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where she gained experience with ERISA. She graduated from Stanford Law School where she was a student attorney in the Youth and Education Law Clinic, a Senior Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review, and a board member of the Stanford Latino Law Student Association. Prior to law school and after graduating with a B.A. from UC Berkeley with distinction, Stephanie taught for two years at a Montessori elementary school in the Caribbean. In addition to her work as an attorney, Stephanie has twice been elected to local office as a school board trustee and she is currently serving her second four-year term.

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Photo of Ian A. Herbert ‡ Ian A. Herbert ‡

Ian A. Herbert focuses his practice on all areas of employee benefits law. He has counseled clients on all aspects of the establishment and administration of pension and profit sharing plans, ESOPs, non-qualified deferred and executive compensation programs, equity and similar compensation plans…

Ian A. Herbert focuses his practice on all areas of employee benefits law. He has counseled clients on all aspects of the establishment and administration of pension and profit sharing plans, ESOPs, non-qualified deferred and executive compensation programs, equity and similar compensation plans, welfare benefit plans, cafeteria plans and VEBAs. In addition, he has wide-ranging experience in performing compliance reviews of qualified plan operations and assisting clients in correcting qualification and other compliance defects.

‡ Admitted in the District of Columbia. Not admitted in Virginia. Practice limited to federal tax and ERISA practice.

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