Kristy N. Britsch

Kristy Britsch serves as senior counsel to the Corporate and Securities Practice Group. She has nearly twenty years of experience advising business owners on incorporating employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) into their business succession planning. Kristy represents businesses of all sizes, as well as selling shareholders and ESOP fiduciaries, in transactions involving employer securities.

Her transaction experience includes representing companies, selling shareholders and ESOP fiduciaries in the sale of employer securities to the ESOP, representing existing ESOP companies and ESOP fiduciaries in sales of ESOP companies to third-party buyers and representing existing ESOP companies and ESOP fiduciaries in the acquisition of other companies. Kristy enjoys helping her clients navigate the complex legal aspects of an ESOP stock purchase transaction and the issues that arise during the life cycle of the ESOP post-transaction, which includes counsel on corporate governance matters unique to ESOP owned companies, ERISA fiduciary matters, ESOP plan compliance matters, and ESOP sustainability considerations.

Kristy also represents plan sponsors and fiduciaries with respect to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Labor (DOL) examinations and audits of qualified retirement plans and with the resolution of plan defects by utilizing the IRS and DOL correction programs.