Rebecca Holdredge is a member of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Client Service Group. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of compensation and benefits matters, including retirement plan and executive compensation issues for public, private and tax-exempt organizations. As part of her retirement practice, Ms. Holdredge advises clients on issues regarding retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, defined benefit pension plans, and nonqualified plans. Her experience includes preparing and amending plan documents, summary plan descriptions, summaries of material modifications; correcting operational errors of qualified retirement plans (including corrections under the Voluntary Compliance Program (VCP)); submitting plans for favorable determination letters; and terminating plans. As part of her practice, she also advises clients on various Section 409A compliance matters, performs excess parachute payment analyses and reviews withdrawal liability calculations. Her experience also includes advising employers with respect to employee benefits and executive compensation matters in corporate transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Holdredge spent seven years as an actuary with the Executive Benefits Group at Mercer Consulting. In that role, she provided consulting services for the benchmarking, design, implementation, and financing of executive nonqualified retirement plans, including SERFs, benefit restoration plans, and voluntary deferred compensation plans. During law school, Ms. Holdredge interned with Project Save in New Orleans, which provides free, emergency legal representation to survivors of domestic violence. She also worked as the senior research editor for Tulane Law School's Journal of Law & Sexuality, the only student-edited journal in the country devoted solely to LGBT issues.

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 2011

Kentucky, 2010

Education

Tulane University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2010

Washington University, B.S., magna cum laude, 2001

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Missouri Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• Society of Actuaries

Civic Involvement and Honors

• Delta Gamma Alumnae of St. Louis