Profile
Rebecca Hudson is a member of Greenberg Traurig’s Benefits & Compensation Practice in Denver. Rebecca provides strategic advice to public and private company employers on all aspects of employee benefits including the design and implementation of tax-qualified retirement plans, welfare plans, deferred compensation and executive compensation plans. Rebecca frequently advises companies with respect to compensation and benefit issues in corporate events, including joint ventures, mergers, buy/sell transactions, and post-merger benefit matters, implementation of new plans and evaluation of future benefit issues.
Rebecca has experience advising tax exempt employers as well as religious organizations and government employers on non-ERISA plan matters and counsels clients on ERISA compliance and fiduciary matters.
Concentrations
- Tax qualified retirement plans
- Nonqualified deferred compensation plans
- Non-ERISA church and government plans
- Deferred compensation and 409A compliance
- Executive compensation
- Incentive compensation
- Health care benefits
- Welfare benefits
- COBRA
- Fiduciary compliance
- Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service audits
- Pre- and post-transaction benefit matters
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented both executives and employers with respect to virtually all aspects of compensation of executives and directors, including negotiating and drafting employment, consulting, and severance agreements, as well as deferred compensation and stock-based incentive compensation programs.
- Structured deferred compensation plans and other innovative programs designed to supplement retirement savings so that governments and tax-exempt organizations can attract and retain key talent.
- Executive compensation, including rabbi trusts and supplemental executive retirement plans, and the application of Code Section 409A to various compensation arrangements.
- Worked with employers, vendors, and health plans to design and implement a variety of health and welfare plans, including health reimbursement arrangements and health savings accounts.
- Advised clients on health and welfare benefit plans, including compliance with COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and health care reform acts of 2010.
- Assisted clients with the numerous health-related provisions and regulatory changes resulting from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
- Counseled privately- and publicly-held corporations regarding fiduciary issues under ERISA, employee benefits issues involved in corporate transactions, executive compensation matters, and the negotiation of administrative services agreements.
- Designed, amended, and administered pension plans, profit sharing plans, 401(k) and 403(b) plans, 457(b) plans, and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements.
- Represented a wide variety of clients, both public and private, in negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor under circumstances including Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System filings and employee plan audits.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2013-2024
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, 2022-2023
- Member, Colorado Bar Association
- Participant, Colorado Supreme Court Well-Being Recognition Program, 2020-2021
Credentials
- LL.M., Tax, University of Denver, 1997
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J.D., University of Denver, 1996
- General Editor, University of Denver Law Review
- M.Ed., with honors, College of William and Mary, 1992
- B.A., with honors, University of Michigan, 1990
- Colorado