Allison Richter

Allison Richter advises clients on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters, helping them design, administer and maintain benefits and compensation arrangements that support their workforce and comply with applicable requirements. Based in Nashville, she also guides clients through benefits and executive compensation issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

Allison counsels clients on qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) plans and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs); nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements; executive, equity and incentive compensation; and health and welfare plans. She advises on these arrangements from plan design through day-to-day administration and compliance. In transactions, she guides buyers and sellers through benefits and compensation matters, from due diligence and the drafting of transaction documents to post-closing integration, helping clients address issues before, during and after closing.

Before joining Holland & Knight, she worked at a leading financial services company, where she gained experience in marketing, strategy and sourcing in the retirement and benefits sector. That business background gives Allison a practical view of how benefit programs are designed, administered and implemented.

In the community, she provides pro bono assistance to small business owners and nonprofit organizations.