Rachel Mann

Associate

Rachel Mann counsels publicly and privately held companies on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation issues. Rachel handles complex matters involving Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) compliance and preemption; tax-qualified pension, 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and ESOP plans; health and retiree medical plans; equity and incentive compensation; and employment, retention, and severance arrangements. She represents clients before the US Internal Revenue Service and the US Department of Labor in a range of proceedings, including remedial correction programs and agency-initiated audits.

Rachel provides advice to clients in the education, healthcare, and financial industries regarding their obligations under ERISA, including compliance with ERISA’s fiduciary responsibility provisions and prohibited transaction rules, plan governance and fiduciary risk management issues, investment of plan assets, and ERISA preemption of state law. Rachel speaks and publishes frequently on employee benefits topics, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing.

While in law school, she served as a senior editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, a contributing author to the Regulatory Review, and externed in the office of general counsel at a large university in the benefits department.

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, 2021, J.D., Order of the Coif, magna cum laude
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, 2021, Wharton Certificate in Management
Hunter College, 2014, MSEd, Special Education 7-12, Kappa Delta Pi
University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, 2012, B.A., History, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude

Pennsylvania

Recommended, Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional, The Legal 500 US (2023)

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Benefits, Law360 (2022)

Member, Board of Directors, Kohelet Yeshiva, Merion Station, PA

Recipient, M.H. Goldstein Award, Best Paper in the Field of Labor Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Recipient, Sidney M. Perlstadt Memorial Award, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel