Isabella Blanes

Isabella Blanes is an associate in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Dallas office. Her practice focuses on matters related to employee benefits, ERISA, and executive compensation.

Isabella has significant experience advising clients in corporate transactions, representing both buyers and sellers, by identifying and correcting employee benefit issues (including compliance with Sections 409A and 280G of the Internal Revenue Code). She routinely advises clients on employee benefit and executive compensation issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, and assists with any potential issues that may arise when employee groups are consolidated with or transferred to another entity in connection with a corporate transaction, business consolidation, reorganization, or bankruptcy.

Isabella also regularly assists clients with design, implementation, administration, compliance, and tax issues related to all types of employee benefit plans, including retirement plans, incentive and equity compensation plans, deferred compensation arrangements, severance and employment agreements, transaction or retention bonuses, and change-in-control agreements.

Isabella is a contributor to Haynes Boone's Practical Benefits Lawyer blog, which discusses issues and developments in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation.