How Businesses Can Provide Tax-Free Financial Assistance to Employees

Forbes
May.12.2020

Orrick’s Kimberly Loocke, Eric Wall and Julia Riechert have co-authored an article in Forbes with Orrick alum Richard Harroch, now serving as a Managing Director and Global Head of M&A at VantagePoint Capital Partners. The article discusses how businesses can assist employees and other workers who are financially burdened by the current crisis through disaster relief assistance payments.

Authors

Kimberly M. Loocke Senior Associate

San Francisco

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Practice:

Finance Sector

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Kimberly M. Loocke Senior Associate

San Francisco

Kimberly holds a Certified Public Accountant license and worked as a senior tax associate for Deloitte Tax, LLP prior to law school.

Eric Wall Partner, Tax, Corporate Tax

San Francisco

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Practice:

Finance Sector
Tax
Corporate Tax
Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology Companies Group
Compensation & Benefits
Real Estate
Tax Advocacy
Energy
Infrastructure

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Eric Wall Partner

San Francisco

Eric counsels private and public companies, including private equity funds, on the tax aspects of their most important business transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and restructurings. In particular, Eric has significant experience with the tax matters most critical to clients in the technology and life science sectors. Eric also has significant experience advising clients on equity and other compensation tax matters, real estate tax matters and tax controversy matters.

Eric began his career at the firm as a summer associate in 2001.

Julia C. Riechert Partner, Employment Law & Litigation, Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation

Silicon Valley

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Practice:

Employment Law & Litigation
Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
Wage and Hour

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Julia C. Riechert Partner

Silicon Valley

Julia is an employment law authority and trial lawyer. She helps companies navigate and resolve challenging workplace issues and has extensive experience in:

Litigating and defeating harassment, discrimination, equal pay, disability and retaliation claims, including #MeToo and whistleblower allegations.
Successfully resolving pre-litigation disputes and employment claims.
The gig economy, independent contractor classification and agency temps, including the ABC test and California's Prop 22.
Wage & hour class and PAGA actions, including defeating class certification for technology and retail companies.
Arbitration agreements, employment policies, anti-harassment training and workplace compliance best practices.
Defending companies against government charges and audits, including unemployment insurance matters.
Employee complaints, workplace investigations, layoffs and employment terminations.
Providing advice and counsel on a wide variety of employment issues for small, medium and large companies.

Julia's clients include Lyft, PayPal, Instacart, Splunk, TaskRabbit, Beyond Meat, Unity Technologies, Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Dropbox and Airbnb. Julia and her Orrick partner Lynne Hermle won the 2017 California Lawyer of the Year award in Labor and Employment from California Lawyer for their defense verdict for SpaceX in a high profile sex harassment, discrimination, retaliation and disability case. The Daily Journal also named their two jury trial wins for SpaceX as top verdicts in 2016 and 2017, both affirmed on appeal. Orrick was named Employment Group of the Year in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Law360 and The Recorder has named Orrick the "Litigation Department of the Year: Labor and Employment" in California four times.

Side note: Julia also loves animal rescue and drinks lots of coffee.