About the Authors and Contributors

• Author: Marla J. Aspinwall - Michael G. Goldstein
• Pages: 20-21

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About the Authors and Contributors

Co-Author and Editor:

Marla Aspinwall is a partner in the Executive Compensation practice group in the Los Angeles

office of Loeb & Loeb LLP. Marla has spent the past twenty-five years working with employers

and compensation consultants across the country to design innovative ways to provide incentive,

equity, deferred compensation, life and disability benefits to highly compensated executives.

Recently she has been active in crafting employment agreements and other compensation and

benefit arrangements to comply with the extensive new deferred compensation, tax, securities,

and accounting rules discussed in this book.

Her expertise combines aspects of tax, ERISA, insurance, labor, securities, and bankruptcy law

to uniquely qualify her to help employers and compensation consultants structure innovative

compensation packages for upper management. She has worked for many years with members

of the insurance industry to structure the most effective insurance funded compensation and

benefit arrangements. She is experienced at structuring compensation arrangements for all types

of taxable and non-taxable entities, and frequently represents companies and executives in the

negotiation of compensation arrangements in numerous industries.

Marla is a popular speaker at the USC Tax Institute, the NYU Tax Institute, the Western Pension

& Benefits Association, and various industry groups. She is an active member of the American

Bar Association and the California State and Los Angeles County Bar Associations. She has

authored white papers on the application of the Social Security Tax Rules Applicable to

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Arrangements and the Application of Section 409A to the

Entertainment Industry presented by Washington DC Delegations of the California State and Los

Angeles County Bar Associations. She co-authored the Matthew Bender pamphlet Critical

Issues in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Compensation Committee. As a member of the Nonqualified

Benefits Committee of the Association of Advanced Life Underwriters (AALU), Marla has been

actively involved in lobbying efforts to influence and comment upon the recent legislative and

regulatory developments as they apply to nonqualified deferred compensation and insurance

funded compensation arrangements.

Co-Author and Editor:

Michael G. Goldstein is President and CEO for Summit Alliance Executive Benefits, LLC.

Mr. Goldstein is a national authority on executive compensation, taxation, estate planning, and

corporate law. A popular lecturer and speaker, he has addressed audiences at hundreds of

national conferences and educational institutions. He is the co-author and co-editor of the 1998

edition of the ABA Insurance Counselor book Taxation and Funding of Non-Qualified Deferred

Compensation as well as several other books, including BNA Tax Management Estate Planning

for the Corporate Executive and numerous articles on the topics of law and finance.