Vanessa A. Scott
Counsel,
Washington
202.383.0215
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Vanessa’s recent representative experience includes:
- Counseling a global textile manufacturer on the application of Section 409A to its executive employment arrangements.
- Advising a Fortune 100 company with regard to the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of a $50 million stock acquisition of a retirement services company.
- Representing a major quasi-governmental entity in extensive negotiations with multiple qualified plan service providers on the implementation of the final 403(b) regulations to a non-ERISA plan.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Former Ambassador (Fellow), Business Law Section, American Bar Association
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Chair, Tax Section, National Bar Association
- Vice Chair, Diversity Committee, Tax Section, American Bar Association
- Counsel to the Board of Directors, D.C. Action for Children
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Author, “Lessons Learned From Worker Classification Cases,” Employment Law360 (November 14, 2008)
- Author, “Fallacies of Presumption: Unpacking the Impact of The Section 409A Proposed Regulations on Stock Appreciation Rights Issued by Privately-Held Companies,” Tax Lawyer (Spring 2006)
- Speaker, “Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Issues,” National Bar Association 82nd Annual Convention and Exhibits (July 28 - August 4, 2008)
- Presenter, "Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," LICONY Health Care Legislation Webinar (June 2010)
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LL.M. in Taxation, with distinction, Georgetown University Law Center, 2006
J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 1997
A.B., Duke University, 1993
Alabama
District of Columbia
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