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Rosina B. Barker is a partner in Ivins, Phillips & Barker's Executive Compensation and Benefits practice in Washington, D.C., where she advises corporations on tax and ERISA issues raised by their employee compensation plans. Barker devotes significant time to cash balance and other qualified plans with complex or novel designs. She is recognized for her expertise in the taxation of executive compensation, and has drafted, interpreted, or negotiated stock-based plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, change-in-control agreements, employment agreements, severance plans, and the like. Before joining Ivins, Barker served on the staff of the Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, where she had primary staff responsibility for benefits-related tax provisions in all legislation from the Tax Reform Act of 1986 through the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990. She is fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. She was chair of the Employee Benefits Committee, D.C. Bar, from 2003 to 2006 and is a contributing author to BNA Books "409A Handbook." Barker is also a member of the Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Publications Advisory Board. Barker received an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard University, and M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was also selected to Order of the Coif and received the Nelson T. Hartson Memorial Award.
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