Dipa N. Sudra

Partner

Succession Planning Partner

I team with my clients to solve their benefits puzzles efficiently, using plain English (sometimes even a laugh).

Dipa thinks like a member of your team. She strives to understand her clients’ business environment and challenges, and will provide appropriately tailored advice. She uses her deep knowledge of employee benefits related laws to craft novel solutions.

Dipa’s clients range from employers with thousands of employees, to those with just a few. She provides sophisticated advice and counsel on employee benefits related laws (e.g. ERISA, the tax code, ACA, COBRA, and HIPAA). She has in-depth knowledge and insight on a wide variety of plans: defined contribution (401(k), 403(b), money-purchase and profit-sharing), defined benefit, health and welfare (wrap, HRA, retiree, MEWA), fringe benefit, non-qualified deferred compensation, and cafeteria. Dipa also represents employers in M&A-related benefits issues. She is regularly called upon to lead training sessions for clients, for example, fiduciary HIPAA and ERISA training.

Practice Highlights

IRS/DOL representation

Representing clients in successfully abating millions of dollars assessed as employer shared responsibility payments (ESRP), and representing clients with IRS and DOL audits.

Plan drafting

Drafting retirement plans, health and welfare plans, and associated documents.

Advice and counsel

Providing sophisticated ongoing advice and counsel related to plan design, including correction of operational and other errors relating to benefits plans, including through the IRS’ EPCRS.

Admitted to Practice

Washington

Education

M.A., University of Oxford, 2001
LPC, College of Law, Guildford, 1997
ATII, Chartered Institute of Taxation (U.K.), 2000
B.A., Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 1996, with honors

Languages

Gujarati

Memberships & Affiliations

- Western Pension and Benefits Council
- King County Bar Association
- Non-practicing UK Solicitor, Law Society of England and Wales

Professional Recognition

- Named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" by Chambers USA in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Washington), 2020-2023
- Selected to "Washington Rising Stars" in Employee Benefits/ERISA, Thomson Reuters, 2010-2011
- Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law by Best Lawyers, 2020-present

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