Mayoung Nham

Mayoung Nham has been working with defined benefit and defined

contribution pension plans, health and welfare plans, and training plans

since graduating law school in 2007. Her experience includes advising

clients on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the Employee

Retirement Income Security Act, the Internal Revenue Code, the

Affordable Care Act, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation

Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Ms.

Nham advises multiemployer pension and health and welfare funds, as

well as single employer and public employee benefit plans. She counsels

clients on issues including regulatory compliance, tax qualification,

plan design, fiduciary duties, plan administration, and investment issues.

She has broad experience in drafting plan documents and participant

disclosures and negotiating service provider contracts on behalf of

pension plans and health and welfare plans. Her practice also involves

representation of employee benefit plans in matters before the Internal

Revenue Service and the Department of Labor, and she has represented

clients in litigation and arbitration matters. Ms. Nham is a member of

the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans at

the U.S. Department of Labor. She is also actively involved with the

American Bar Association’s Employee Benefits Committee and has published

several articles in the ABA Employee Benefits Committee

Newsletter. Ms. Nham is also a senior chapter editor of the ABA Section

of Labor and Employment Law’s treatise, Employee Benefits Law and is

a frequent speaker on employee benefit issues. Ms. Nham received her

law degree from the George Washington University School of Law in

2007 and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Public Policy Studies and French

Studies from Duke University in 2004. Ms. Nham is licensed to practice

law in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.