Evelyn A. Haralampu

Evelyn Haralampu advises clients on a wide array of ERISA, employee benefits, executive compensation and related taxation issues, having headed the employee benefits practice of a prominent Boston law firm for a number of years. She counsels businesses on deferred compensation in succession planning, and handles employee benefits and executive compensation in business transactions. She advises plan fiduciaries on their legal duties, including avoiding prohibited transactions, negotiating service contracts with benefits providers, and correcting operational failures of employee benefit plans. She counsels employers in handling executive compensation, severance arrangements, separation agreements, equity plans, deferred compensation and tax-qualified retirement plans, and advises on related tax and employment issues. Evelyn counsels non-profits on governance issues, 403(b) tax-sheltered annuities, and 457(f) executive compensation plans. She advises on the privacy protection of health information under HIPAA, and data privacy matters under Massachusetts law. She represents clients before the IRS and U.S. Department of Labor.

Evelyn has written many articles, has been quoted in many publications and regularly speaks at events on a wide variety of employee benefits and executive compensation issues. She has an AV® Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, was listed as a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Go-To Lawyer, Taxation for 2024, has been named by The Best Lawyers in America© as a Best Lawyer in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law since 2013. Evelyn received an LL.M in taxation from Boston University School of Law and is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Wellesley College.