Biography

Ms. Moskalenko is an associate in the Employee Benefits Department of the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. She has specialized in advising and representing clients in all aspects of employee benefits law for over a decade.

Ms. Moskalenko's current practice focuses on compliance and administration of pension and welfare plans. She has extensive experience with a variety of issues relating to these types of plans, including plan design and drafting, operation, participant communications, mergers, benefit claims and procedures, processing of qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs), domestic partner coverage, reporting requirements, fiduciary liability and other federal and state related compliance requirements. Ms. Moskalenko also assists plan sponsors with retirement plan tax qualification requirements, and has represented plans before the IRS in connection with qualification and reporting issues.

Ms. Moskalenko also has extensive experience with multiemployer retirement and health plans. As part of her multiemployer plan work, Ms. Moskalenko has advised trustees of multiemployer plans as well as employers who contribute to such plans on general and complex withdrawal liability issues, including partial and complete withdrawal liability triggers, calculations and abatement matters. She has also worked directly with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) on withdrawal liability issues. Ms. Moskalenko regularly attends multiemployer plan board and subcommittee meetings.

Ms. Moskalenko also has experience advising clients with respect to executive compensation matters, including stock related benefits and deferred compensation. Ms. Moskalenko works with a wide variety of clients from small agriculture employers with single employer plans to large entertainment industry multiemployer retirement and health plans.

Ms. Moskalenko received her J.D. from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1995, and her B.A. from the University of California at San Diego, cum laude, in 1991.

Education

J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (1995)
B.A., University of California at San Diego, cum laude (1991)

Admissions

• California (1995)