Profile

Katie Iams counsels private and public clients on a broad range of employment benefit issues and ERISA litigation matters. She counsels clients regarding the design, implementation and administration of employment benefit plans, reporting and disclosure requirements and employee communications.

Additionally, Ms. Iams advises employers regarding health and welfare benefit plans (including health care reform), ERISA fiduciary duties, executive and equity compensation and employee benefit issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Iams has a background in commercial litigation and has represented clients before state, federal and administrative courts and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining Parker Poe, she served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Robert J. Conrad, Jr., Chief Federal District Court Judge for the Western District of North Carolina.

Experience Highlights

Ms. Iams regularly advises and represents clients on the following matters:

• Representing clients, including banks and financial institutions, third-party administrators, manufacturers, employers and retirement and welfare plans, to defend lawsuits brought under ERISA in both state and federal court
• Design, implementation and administration of qualified retirement plans, including Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor correction program submissions
• Equity/incentive compensation arrangements, including stock options plans, restricted stock and other stock incentive plans
• Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code and other nonqualified deferred compensation issues
• Corporate governance and securities law aspects of compensation and benefit arrangements, including executive compensation disclosure requirements for public companies
• Employee benefit implications of mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions
• Health and welfare plans, including medical, cafeteria, and flexible benefit plans and health care reform compliance
• Employment arrangements and severance agreements

News

• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012