Mary Powell

San Francisco, CA

Mary Powell is a Director at Trucker Huss, APC in San Francisco, CA. She has over two decades of experience in all aspects of employee benefits. Currently, her main focus is assisting employers with the implementation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drafting executive compensation and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Mary assists employers with obtaining Private Letter Rulings from the IRS and she submits comments to the Department of Treasury/IRS and Department of Labor both prior to the issuance of regulations and in response to proposed guidance issued by those agencies.

Mary has extensive experience in handling benefit plans in mergers and acquisitions. Her clients include large publicly held companies and complex multi-entity health care organizations. Mary has lectured frequently on various employee benefit topics, including drug pricing issues under health plans, the impact of the Dobbs decision on health plans, and executive compensation topics for many clients and organizations including The Commonwealth Club of California, a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate, and the Western Pension and Benefits Conference. For many years she was a contributing author to the ABA Labor Section’s Employee Benefits Law, published by BNA. Mary is a Chambers rated lawyer and has been listed as a Top-Rated Employee Benefits Attorney by Northern California Super Lawyers since 2017.

Mary earned and LL.M. in Taxation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. with honors from Golden Gate University, and B.A. in Rhetoric and Philosophy from Willamette University.