Profile: Barbara B Creed

Employee Benefits

Biography: Employee Benefits

Barbara Creed has more than 35 years of experience in employee benefits issues and specialises in all aspects of employee benefits. Today, Ms Creed's practice focuses primarily on equity and executive compensation, qualified retirement plans, 401(k) plans, and IRS, DOL and PBGC plan audits. Her clients include large publicly held companies and complex multi-entity health care organisations. She represents many publicly held companies on executive compensation matters and has advised clients on employee benefits aspects of many mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations.

Ms Creed has lectured frequently on employee benefits and executive compensation topics for many organisations, including the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, the Practising Law Institute, Tax Executives Institute and the Western Pension and Benefits Conference. Barbara is the author of ERISA Compliance: Reporting and Disclosure, published by the Practising Law Institute.

Ms Creed is a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, is listed in Best Lawyers in America and has been named a Northern California 'Super Lawyer' by Law & Politics magazine in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Ms Creed has been involved in many community and charitable activities, including serving as a trustee of the over $9 billion pension fund of the Episcopal Church in the United States.