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.
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.
