Erin Turley is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Dallas office. She focuses her practice on employee benefits matters.
Erin has extensive experience handling matters pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). With respect to ERISA, Erin focuses on employee benefits, including qualified plans, nonqualified plans, and executive and deferred compensation and welfare benefit plans; and on regulatory compliance with the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, and PPACA. She also advises employers in the design, implementation, and administration of tax-qualified and nonqualified retirement plans and health and welfare benefit plans and regularly represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor in audit and correction matters. Erin has advised employers with respect to issues raised in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures as they relate to the various benefit plans maintained by the affected corporate entity or entities.
Erin’s ESOP practice focuses on the design and implementation of ESOP transactions and providing ongoing legal counsel to ESOP owned companies. She has been involved in hundreds of ESOP transactions including leveraged buy-outs, mergers, acquisitions, and the structuring and financing of ESOPs using private equity. Erin also has extensive experience in representing lenders to ESOP owned companies in designing and negotiating credit facilities specifically tailored to the needs of ESOP owned companies.
Erin has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and by D Magazine as a leading lawyer in her field. Additionally, she is an active writer and speaker on ERISA and ESOP issues.
Erin serves as chair of the American Bar Association Tax Section Subcommittee and is a member of the Texas State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Erin received her LL.M. in 1996 from Georgetown University Law Center. She earned her J.D. in 1994 from Texas Tech University School of Law and her B.A. in 1989 from University of Dallas.
Erin is admitted to practice in Texas.
