Jeanne M. Annarumma is Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where she is a member of the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group.  Ms. Annarumma works closely with the firm's numerous private equity, hedge fund and leveraged buyout fund clients in order to assure qualification as "venture capital operating companies" and "real estate operating companies" or meet other available plan asset exceptions in order to avoid ERISA fiduciary and potential prohibited transaction concerns.  Ms. Annarumma also has experience advising on the issues that arise when assets of a fund do qualify as “plan assets,” including avoiding prohibited transactions and the heightened duties that apply to fiduciaries of plan assets.

Ms. Annarumma received her B.A. from Boston College in 1983, her J.D. cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 1994, and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University Law School in 1999.  She was a law clerk for the Honorable Roanne L. Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Publications

•	New IRC Section 457A Prohibits Deferral of Compensation Paid by Offshore Funds and Certain Partnerships
•	Overview of the New Pension Protection Act of 2006
•	Pension Protection Act of 2006 - Plan Assets and Prohibited Transaction Matters

Admissions

•	New York 1995
•	New Jersey 1994

Clerkships

•	The Honorable Roanne L. Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1995)

Education

•	Boston College, 1983
•	New York University School of Law, 1999 LL.M.
•	Brooklyn Law School, 1994 J.D. Cum Laude