22 Jul 2026
Greenberg Traurig Expands Benefits & Compensation Practice with Kate Saracene and Lisa Christensen
"Greenberg Traurig adds Katherine "Kate" Ulrich Saracene and Lisa Christensen to its Benefits & Compensation practice to work on employee benefits, health and welfare plans, tax, and compliance."
Katherine "Kate" Ulrich Saracene joins Greenberg Traurig’s New York office as a Shareholder from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. She advises employers, insurers, third-party administrators, and health care providers on a broad range of employment, tax, and employee benefits matters, with a particular focus on health and welfare benefit plans. Drawing on more than a decade of experience as a human resources and employee relations professional at Xerox and over 20 years of advisory experience, she counsels clients on the design, administration, funding, and compliance of medical, dental, vision, wellness, leave, and other employee benefit programs. Her practice also encompasses complex projects involving self-funded health plans, on-site medical clinics, Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association trusts, multiple-employer benefit arrangements, and collectively bargained benefit programs. Her work frequently intersects with labor and employment law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, tax, the Affordable Care Act, insurance, and privacy issues.
Lisa Christensen joins Greenberg Traurig’s Dallas office as Of Counsel from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. She counsels employers ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations on the full scope of employee benefits and executive compensation compliance, and assists clients in building and maintaining plans and compliance programs across qualified retirement plans, welfare benefit plans, fringe benefit arrangements, and executive compensation arrangements. She has deep experience with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act matters and other data privacy and security laws and is a frequent adviser to health care and health plan clients. She holds an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court.
Greenberg Traurig’s Benefits & Compensation Practice advises employers, fiduciaries, insurers, and service providers on employee benefits, executive compensation, retirement plans, health and welfare arrangements, and related regulatory matters.