Rikki Sapolich-Krol is a partner and has a broad-based employee benefits and
executive compensation practice, with experience in areas such as tax-qualified,
tax-advantaged and nonqualified retirement plans, executive employment and severance
arrangements, equity- and non-equity-based incentive plans, and welfare benefit
plans. In particular, she focuses on structuring, implementing, administrating, and
correcting benefit plans and compensation arrangements for public, private,
nonprofit, and government clients. Her experience includes 401(k) plans, ESOPs,
defined benefit plans, 403(b) plans, IRAs, 457 plans, 415(m) plans, and deferred
compensation and other executive benefit arrangements subject to Internal Revenue
Code § 409A.
Rikki also advises plan sponsors and institutional fiduciaries on the fiduciary
aspects of employee benefit plans, corporate transactions involving ESOPs, pension
de-risking strategies, including annuity purchases, the employee benefits aspects of
mergers and acquisitions and benefit issues impacting international workforces. She
has also represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service, Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation, and Department of Labor in significant audits and
investigations.
Rikki was recognized as one of 2016’s “Top 50 Women Lawyers” by the
National Diversity Council.
