Elverine "Rena" Felton focuses her legal practice on guiding employers through the design, implementation, and administration of complex employee benefit plans
Rena also has extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of executive compensation, including negotiating and drafting equity compensation plans and awards, employment/severance agreements, and other compensation arrangements. Clients also turn to Rena for questions on health and welfare matters related to the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, and COBRA.
Before joining FordHarrison, Rena was an associate director of health and benefits compliance at a leading global advisory, broking, and consulting company. In this role, she regularly advised clients on health and welfare plans and compliance with various relevant federal statutes such as the ACA, ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, HIPAA, ADA, FMLA and COBRA.
Rena is a frequent speaker on employee benefits compliance issues under ACA, COBRA, HIPAA and ERISA. She has previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center where she taught an introduction to employee benefits class to 2L, 3L and LL.M. students. Rena has also published articles on employee benefits compliance issues.