Kelly A. Starr > Vedder Price > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
Vedder Price Offices
222 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2600
CHICAGO, IL 60601-1003
ILLINOIS
United States
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Kelly A. Starr
Work Department
Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits
Position
Shareholder
Career
Ms. Starr counsels a variety of employers on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the design, tax qualification, legal compliance, correction, interpretation, communication and termination of broad-based employee benefit plans. She also negotiates and structures executive employment agreements and executive compensation and benefit arrangements, including incentive compensation and deferred compensation agreements, severance agreements and change-in-control programs, on behalf of both individual executives and companies. She has substantial experience advising boards of directors and their committees with respect to executive compensation issues.
Prior to attending law school, Ms. Starr was employed with the human resources department of Amoco Corporation.
Ms. Starr currently serves as the Chair of the firm’s Benefits Committee. She formerly served as the Chair of the firm’s Associate Evaluation Committee and as a member of the firm’s Shareholder Compensation Committee, Associate Hiring Committee, Diversity Committee and Nominating Committee.
Memberships
- Member, American Bar Association (Sections on Taxation and Business Law)
- Member, Chicago Bar Association
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1995, cum laude
- Cornell University, B.S., 1988
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
Vedder Price, a practice that has both ‘depth and expertise’, has a number of specialisms, including SEC disclosure, corporate law and the tax implications of executive compensation, employee benefits and retirement plans. The firm also handles a variety of day-to-day design issues as well as retirement and welfare benefit plans, alongside C-suite and executive compensation and employment arrangements. Practice head Christopher Collins has a particular focus on retirement and welfare plan design, qualification and compliance. ‘Responsive’ and ‘intelligent’ Thomas Hancuch primarily focuses on employee benefit plan design, such as ERISA compliance, while Kelly Starr has experience of negotiating and structuring executive employment agreements, executive compensation, and benefit arrangements. All listed attorneys are based in Chicago.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense