Susan E. Stoffer is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s Atlanta office practicing in executive compensation and employee benefits law. She focuses on counseling clients on retirement plan design and complex testing and compliance, as well as merger and acquisition issues and ERISA fiduciary issues. Additionally, she focuses heavily on executive compensation plan design, equity plans, and employment and severance arrangements.

Ms. Stoffer is experienced in welfare plan compliance, HIPAA, healthcare reform, and retiree welfare arrangements. She also regularly counsels clients on benefits issues connected with PEOs and employee outsourcing arrangements and has extensive experience dealing with collectively bargained pension and healthcare issues, including negotiation of such matters.

Before joining Nelson Mullins, Ms. Stoffer worked for another Atlanta law firm as well as a large international firm headquartered in New York. She also served as in-house employee benefits counsel for Time Warner Inc.

 Ms. Stoffer is a sought-after speaker whose presentations include:

• "The Odd Couple: Healthcare Reform and Limits to Executive Compensation", NYU 70th Institute on Federal Taxation (New York October 2011, San Francisco November 2011)
• "Executive Employment Agreements:" a presentation for the Kettering Group (January 2010)
• “The ‘A’ List Grows: The Impact of Code Section 457A on Deferred Compensation,” New York State Bar Association Full-Day CLE Programs (September 17, 2009)
• Leader, “Seminar on Executive Agreements 2009 — a presentation for C-Suite Executives in Transition,” Lee Hecht Harrison, Atlanta, GA (April 2009)
• "Legal Update Seminar,” American Staffing Association 2009 Staffing Law Conference, Washington, D.C. (April 2009)

She has also authored numerous publications and articles, including:

• "The Odd Couple:  Health Care Reform and Executive Compensation – The Dawn of Code Section 162(m)(6)", BNA Pension & Benefits Daily (June, 8, 2010)
• Co-author, “NYSBA Report on Code Section 457A,” New York State Bar Association (September 2009)
• “VEBAs: Old Wine in New Bottles,” Benefits & Compensation Law Alert (January 2008)
• “New Developments in Funding Retiree Medical Benefits with a VEBA,” ABA, Labor and Employment Section, Employee Benefits Committee (2008)
• Co-Author, Executive Compensation Answer Book and Supplements (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Editor, Employee Benefits Law, ABA, Labor and Employment Section, Aspen Publishers (BNA)
• "Report on Regulation of Specialized Types of Retirements Income Plans,” ABA, Labor and Employment Section, Employee Benefits Committee (2006, 2007)
• “Report on Retirement Plan Qualification, Design, and Administration,” Mid-Winter Meeting, ABA, Labor and Employment Section, Employee Benefits Committee (Subcommittee Report and Presentation) (2003, 2004, 2005)

A member of the state Bars of Georgia and New York, Ms. Stoffer is also a member of the American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section, Employee Benefits Committee, Co-Chair of Subcommittee on Plan Design, Qualification, and Administration, 2003-2007; Editor and Contributing Author, Employee Benefits Law). She is also a member of the IRS Employee Plans Council (Gulf Coast Region), Lee Hecht Harrision (Executive Resource Board), the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), Wolters Kluwer Law & Business — CCH and Aspen Publishers (Pension Editorial Advisory Board), Women in Pensions, and the Women’s Board of Directors Network.

Ms. Stoffer earned a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law in 1986 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois in 1980.