Kara Backus

Kara Backus practices exclusively in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. She enjoys working with clients to help them better understand and solve their often complex employee benefits issues.

Clients rely on Kara’s experience with qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefit plans, executive compensation issues, and the employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Kara helps clients to design and draft benefit plans, monitor compliance with new legislation, analyze regulatory guidance under the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA, and interact with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor regarding plan issues. She also advises clients on equity plans, Section 409A deferred compensation arrangements, and fiduciary responsibility.