Frances A. Moran

Frances Ann Moran is an associate in the Employee Benefits Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Her practice is comprised of all aspects of executive compensation and qualified pension and welfare benefit plan legal work. Ms. Moran's executive compensation practice includes working with clients - both public and private, as well as foreign based companies and individual executives - to design and maintain equity and non-equity based compensation arrangements, performance based short- and long-term incentive programs, executive employment, change in control, severance contracts, and deferred compensation plans. Her practice includes compliance, disclosure, and reporting issues that arise from such arrangements. Ms. Moran advises companies and compensation committees on corporate governance requirements associated with executive compensation design and determinations as well as securities law, national stock exchange regulations, and tax law requirements related to executive compensation contracts, arrangements, programs, and plans, including the preparation of securities filings. Ms. Moran's qualified retirement plan and welfare benefit practice includes designing, drafting and maintaining plan documents, assisting clients with ongoing plan administration and compliance issues, benefit issues that arise in corporate transactions, and plan correction programs. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Moran was part of the customized executive education program development and delivery team at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (which is now Duke Corporate Education) and served as the project manager for the development of the Duke MBA - Cross Continent. Education J.D., Duke University School of Law (2001) B.A., Meredith College, With Honors (1997)