Amelia Trefz

Amelia is an associate in Taft’s Indianapolis office and focuses her practice on executive compensation and employee benefits. She has a wide breadth of experience in mergers & acquisitions, negotiating and drafting various commercial contracts, private equity transactions, employment law compliance and executive compensation matters.

Prior to joining Taft, Amelia was a transactional associate at a well-known New York City firm where she worked with clients on complex legal issues related to employment, securities and employee equity, IRS and DOL audits, privacy and confidentiality arrangements, and investigations arising from compensation and employee benefit plans.

Amelia earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and her bachelor’s degree, with honors, in marketing from Indiana University. While Amelia was in law school, she was a legal intern for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Nashville, TN, where she worked closely with the TN Chief Counsel on legal matters, financial transactions, multifamily insured mortgages and changes in ownership.

Admitted in New York only.