Candace L. Quinn

Senior Counsel @Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New York, NY, US

I have extensive tax and legal experience in employee benefits and executive compensation, representing for-profit and not-for-profit entities. My practice focuses on domestic and cross-border regulatory and operational qualified and nonqualified plan compliance, M&A due diligence on EC/EB plans and arrangements, executive compensation plan design, fiduciary standards, best practice corporate governance, internal controls, as well as the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Dodd-Frank, legal and tax matters concerning qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, and ERISA and tax litigation support. I also focus my practice on ESG linked to executive compensation and providing advisory support to the firm’s ESG, Corporate Citizenship and Human Rights Practice Group. Advising on ESG due diligence matters including identifying potential ESG liabilities and risks and ESG key issues such as diversity and inclusion. I am knowledgeable on ESG frameworks such as SASB and TCFD and Securities and Exchange Commission ESG reporting issues. I have supported renewable energy projects including on structuring tax equity, project finance, advising on renewable energy credits and incentives, and M&A renewable energy tax due diligence. I have counseled clients on tax, ERISA, fiduciary duty standards, and corporate governance under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I have conducted extensive due diligence operational compliance reviews of qualified retirement plans and governmental and tax-sheltered annuity plans (including integrating third-party administration and vendor agreements) and transactional reviews for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; represented plan sponsors regarding plan corrections to the IRS and Department of Labor for compliance; counseled clients in audits, managed tax controversies and resolutions; and obtained IRS recognition of tax-exempt status for numerous organizations.