10100 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 2200
Los Angeles,
California
90067
 310.282.2377
 310.919.3540
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Marla
Aspinwall
Partner
Marla Aspinwall concentrates her practice in the tax, ERISA, labor and securities aspects of executive compensation, including employment agreements; nonqualified deferred compensation; and equity, retirement, incentive and welfare benefit plans.
Ms. Aspinwall has extensive knowledge of insurance-funded executive benefits for publicly held, private and tax-exempt organizations. She also specializes in the tax and business aspect of agricultural cooperative organizations and has represented many large agricultural cooperatives.
Publications/Speeches
- Speaker, 409A Deferred Compensation Update, California Society of CPA's and Los Angeles County Bar Association Tax Night (November 2007)
- Speaker, Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Update, National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives, Annual Meeting of Far Western Chapter (May 2007)
- Author, Use of a Fixed Payment Schedule Can Satisfy Section 409A (May 2007)
- Speaker, Section 409A Panel, 2007 Annual Meeting of Association of Advanced Life Underwriters, Washington, District of Columbia (May 2007)
- Speaker, Planning for Old and New Split-Dollar Arrangements Under the New Rules, Web Seminar, Association of Advance Life Underwriters (November 2006)
- Author, Section 409A Compliance Deadline Extended to 12/31/2007 (October 2006)
- Author, Executive Compensation after the American Jobs Creation Act (August 2006)
- Author, The New World of Executive Compensation After The American Jobs Creation Act, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Northeast Edition (Part I July 2006 and Part II August 2006)
Affiliations
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Member, Legislative Circle Program, Association for Advanced Underwriting (AALU)
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Member, Employee Benefits Committee, Los Angeles County Bar
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Member, Legal, Tax, and Accounting Committee, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
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Member, Tax Committee, National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives
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Member, California State Bar Association
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University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, J.D., 1984, Order of the Coif Editor, Southern California Law Review
University of Utah, B.A., 1980, Honors English summa cum laude
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