Rita Patel advises clients on employee benefits, executive compensation, and business tax matters. Her experience includes designing and analyzing a broad range of qualified and nonqualified retirement and deferred compensation plans for public and private companies and tax-exempt entities. She has considerable experience advising clients in the correction of plan failures under IRS and Department of Labor correction programs. In addition, Ms. Patel provides guidance regarding welfare plans including multiple employer welfare arrangements. Ms. Patel's broad practice also covers the design and administration of stock option, stock purchase and restricted stock agreements and counseling regarding securities laws as they relate to such equity-based arrangements.

Related to Ms. Patel's benefits practice, she represents tax-exempt entities including public charities, private foundations, social welfare organizations and trade associations in all types of tax matters. She has experience on various tax-exempt matters including the application of the private foundation excise taxes and the limitations on political activities, UBIT issues, intermediate sanctions, public disclosure requirements, and private inurement and private benefit issues

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Patel worked for the US Department of Justice through its Attorney General's Honor Program. Through this program, Ms. Patel practiced immigration law first as a US Immigration Court clerk and then as an attorney with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Ms. Patel has continued to assist immigration clients through the firm's pro bono asylum program.