Topics covered included options available for restructuring benefit
plans, avoiding operational problems, and keeping up with new filing
requirements. Additional presenters in the group included Associates
Kathleen Faulknham Centolella and Cecelia R.S. Cannon.
McAuliffe focuses her practice in the areas of employee benefits, trusts
and estates, mergers and acquisitions, and tax planning and advocacy,
including federal and state fiduciary tax planning and preparation. Her
experience includes advising clients with regard to the establishment,
administration, and termination of qualified retirement plans, cafeteria
plans, and other fringe benefit plans. McAuliffe is a graduate of
Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., 1992), The Maxwell School of
Syracuse University (M.P.A., 1979), and the University of Notre Dame
(B.A., 1974).
Centolella has been an Associate Attorney with the firm for over five
years and practices in the areas of employee benefits, business
transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. She advises clients with
regard to the establishment, administration, and termination of
qualified retirement plans. Centolella has extensive experience with
nonqualied deferred compensation arrangements including executive
benefit plans and supplemental employee retirement plans. Centolella is
a graduate of the University of Richmond Law School (JD, 2004) and St.
Lawrence University, (B.A., 2001).
Cannon, an Associate Attorney with the firm, focuses her practice in the
areas of Employee Benefits, Economic Development Incentives, and
Litigation. She works with both individuals and corporate clients on a
variety of complex and simple legal matters involving qualified
retirement plans, Brownfield Cleanup Program Legislation, and securities
arbitration. Cannon is a graduate of Cornell University Law School
(J.D., 2008, magna cum laude) and Cornell University (B.A., 2003, cum
laude).
Green & Seifter, Attorneys PLLC is a diversified law firm of more than
30 attorneys located in Syracuse. The firm provides counsel on such
issues as mergers and acquisitions, business transactions, alternative
dispute resolution, economic development, government relations,
litigation, commercial bankruptcy, trusts and estates, employee
benefits, commercial real estate, employment, energy, environmental and
land use law, and tax planning and advocacy. For more information,
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