Ms. Turley joined K&L Gates in 2011. Ms. Turley focuses in the area of ERISA with respect to employee benefits including qualified plans, non-qualified plans, welfare benefit plans, and executive and deferred compensation. Ms. Turley focuses on advising employers in the design, implementation, and administration of tax qualified and nonqualified retirement plans and representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor in audit and correction matters. Ms. Turley has extensive experience in advising employers with respect to issues raised in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures as they relate to the various benefit plans maintained by the affected corporate entity or entities. Ms. Turley also has extensive experience in employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) and has been involved in numerous ESOP transactions including leveraged buy-outs, mergers, acquisitions, and the structuring and financing of ESOPs using private equity. Ms. Turley is active as a speaker on Employee Stock Ownership Plans, Fiduciary Liability Issues and employee benefit topics across the country.