Rena focuses her practice on guiding employers through the design, implementation, and administration of complex employee benefit plans.
Rena has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of executive compensation, including negotiating and drafting equity compensation plans and awards, employment and severance agreements, and other compensation arrangements. She also advises clients on health and welfare matters related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), HIPAA, COBRA and state and local leave laws. Rena also is knowledgeable in advising on qualified and non-qualified retirement plans as well as governmental plans.
Rena assists clients in a broad range of benefits matters related to mergers and acquisitions, taxation issues related to executive compensation arrangements (such as Internal Revenue Code Sections 409A and 280G), ERISA fiduciary and pension investment issues, and correction programs under the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor.
Previously, Rena served as associate director of health and benefits compliance at a leading global advisory, broking, and consulting company, where she regularly advised clients on health and welfare plans and compliance with various federal statutes, such as the ACA, ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, HIPPA, ADA, FMLA, and COBRA.
Rena frequently speaks on employee benefits compliance issues under ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center, teaching an introductory employee benefits class. Additionally, Rena volunteers with Atlanta-based organizations, such as Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, where she assists non-profits; Black Women Will, where she assists indigent women draft wills; and Atlanta Legal Aid, where she assists indigent individuals with landlord-tenant issues.