Jacob M. Mattinson focuses his practice on employee benefits and matters related to 401(k), 403(b), pension, executive compensation, health care reform, and cafeteria and welfare plans.

Jacob assists clients in drafting employee benefit plan documents and amendments. He represents clients in matters before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), US Department of Labor (DOL) and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with respect to plan qualification issues. He also counsels privately and publicly held corporations and tax-exempt entities on a variety of benefits and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) issues, including ERISA fiduciary issues, compliance with the Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), ERISA implications in corporate transactions, ERISA administrative claims and appeals, and executive compensation matters.

While in law school, Jacob was editor in chief of the Penn State Law Review. In addition, Jacob served as a legal intern for the Honorable Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Jacob is the Chairperson of the Young Professionals Board of Equip for Equality. Internally, Jacob serves on the Firm’s Pro Bono and Community Service Committee.

Advises companies on cybersecurity incident response, including ransomware attacks, data breaches, fund transfer fraud, and business email compromise

Represents clients in data security and privacy litigation and regulatory investigations

Counsels publicly traded companies on SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements, including Form 10-K and Form 8-K filings

Leverages a background in computer programming and IT analysis to advise on data security, privacy, AI, and computer forensic investigations

Mark E. Schreiber focuses his practice on cybersecurity, data breach response, Payment Card Industry (PCI), global privacy coordination, and AI governance. He advises entities facing cross-border data protection, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), privacy frameworks, strategic decisions, cyber assessments and investigations. Mark has led numerous multinational and cross-border matters and internal investigations, including those involving data breaches, data transfer and credit card/PCI matters. He has advised senior management, boards, and special board committees on a variety of investigations, including data breach prevention and response.

Mark has spoken around the world on topics related to data breaches and related defense litigation strategy, overlapping international data protection compliance, and other privacy topics. He has also given cyber, privacy, and AI presentations to delegations from some 80 countries during numerous State Department sponsored international visits. He helped found and was chair for over a decade of the Privacy and Data Protection Group of the World Law Group, an international affiliation of large law firms in some 65 countries, and received the “2012 World Law Group Practice/Industry Group Leader of the Year Award” in recognition of his privacy and data protection work, including managing two global data protection publications. In addition, Mark helped found and was co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Privacy Law Committee. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and has given a variety of presentations for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Mark has also practiced, written and lectured widely on topics related to employment law, including presentations to the Flaschner Judicial Institute for judges. Prior to entering private practice, he was the chief trial lawyer for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD).

Thomas M. Dawson represents US and non-US re/insurers, brokers and intermediaries on regulatory, licensing, compliance, product development, and corporate matters.

Tom advises industry participants on a wide variety of regulatory and transactional matters, including cybersecurity compliance, insurtech ventures, and Holding Company Act filings. He has helped clients form, acquire, and invest in US insurers, reinsurers, and intermediaries. He counsels non-insurers on advertising, licensing, and marketing generally, and provides regulatory compliance advice to service contract issuers and other specialty product providers. More recently, Tom’s work has included helping develop parametric insurance products as well as advising insurers on emerging issues including climate change risk disclosure and using artificial intelligence and big data.

Tom has guided non-US insurers and reinsurers in the London Market, Europe, Bermuda, and Asia for more than 35 years, helping them obtain and maintain surplus lines and reinsurer approvals, as well as identifying, monitoring, and reporting on relevant NAIC activities and state and federal legislation. In recent years, the regulatory status options for non-US reinsurers in particular have multiplied, and Tom has acted, and continues to act, for many non-US reinsurers that have established large US reinsurance trusts. More recently, Tom has continued to represent non-US reinsurers that have obtained certified and/or reciprocal reinsurer status.

Beginning in 2020, Tom began tracking and commenting on developing climate change regulation and disclosure requirements in the US and in other key jurisdictions, and he is the Insurance Transactions and Regulatory team’s representative on the firm’s ESG Working Group.

Bradford E. LaBonte focuses his practice on US and international tax matters. He advises multinational corporations and investment funds on matters related to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, cash repatriation, controlled foreign corporation (CFC) and passive foreign investment company (PFIC) regimes, financial instrument classification, US trade or business determinations, US income tax treaty qualification and planning, and US withholding tax issues.

Bradford previously worked as a senior associate with a “Big Four” accounting firm. Prior to that, he gained experience in the Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel and in the California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General. During law school, Bradford served as executive editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.