Barbara D. Klippert

Barbara has represented The Bond Market Association/The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in obtaining US Department of Labor approval to permit a broader range of asset-backed securities to be purchased by benefit investors.

Barbara is a member of the ABA Tax Section, Employee Benefits Committee, and is a past member of the Executive Committee and past co-chair and current member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association. She is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, writes on a variety of employee benefit-related topics and is the author of the “ERISA Considerations” chapter of Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities (Aspen Press, 2005, now published by Walter Kluwer/annual updates), a seminal work on ERISA considerations relating to asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. Barbara has been listed as a leading employee benefits practitioner in “New York Area’s Best Lawyers” by New York Magazine, the New York Times’ “New York Super Lawyers” and the Best Lawyers in America.

Barbara serves on the board of directors of the Little Baby Face Foundation (which provides free surgeries to indigent children born with facial deformities) and serves as pro-bono counsel to the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum.