Natalie Welsh represents not-for-profit, public and private sector employers on a wide-range of employee benefits matters. She advises employers with respect to compliance, correction alternatives and plan design changes. In addition to employers, Natalie represents financial institutions that provide services to retirement plans.

Increasingly, clients are focusing on the welfare side of their benefits programs. Natalie advises clients on the design and administration of their welfare benefits, cafeteria plans and wellness programs and incentives. She has utilized her experience in local government administration to advise numerous public sector clients with respect to establishing trusts (so called "OPEB" or "GASB" trusts) to fun retiree welfare obligations.

Natalie has conducted seminars on a variety of topics including, most recently, Internal Revenue Code Section 409A and the impact of the final regulations on 403(b) plans maintained by certain not-for-profit entities and schools.

Natalie Welsh represents not-for-profit, public and private sector employers on a wide-range of employee benefits matters. She advises employers with respect to compliance, correction alternatives and plan design changes. In addition to employers, Natalie represents financial institutions that provide services to retirement plans.

Increasingly, clients are focusing on the welfare side of their benefits programs. Natalie advises clients on the design and administration of their welfare benefits, cafeteria plans and wellness programs and incentives. She has utilized her experience in local government administration to advise numerous public sector clients with respect to establishing trusts (so called "OPEB" or "GASB" trusts) to fun retiree welfare obligations.

Natalie has conducted seminars on a variety of topics including, most recently, Internal Revenue Code Section 409A and the impact of the final regulations on 403(b) plans maintained by certain not-for-profit entities and schools.

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 1994, with high honors

University of Pennsylvania, M.G.A., 1988

University of Virginia, B.A., 1986, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Admissions

Connecticut

Distinctions

* Senator Joseph Clark Scholar in Public Leadership, University of Pennsylvania

Professional Affiliations

* American Bar Association

* Connecticut Bar Association

Community Involvement

* Town of East Granby Board of Finance: Vice-Chair

* Town of East Granby Charter Commission