Allison Warden Sizemore

Partner

Pittsburgh

Allison is a partner in the Global Corporate Group and serves as Chair of the U.S. Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group. She assists clients with matters involving employee benefits and executive compensation. Among Allison’s areas of specialty expertise are the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule, legal compliance for qualified retirement plans, complex controlled group and similar determinations, documentation and disclosure for qualified and nonqualified plans, executive compensation (including Code Sections 409A, 280G, and 457), counseling regarding day-to-day benefits administration and compliance, health and welfare plan matters, and withdrawal liability and other multiemployer plan issues. She also regularly advises employers on ERISA fiduciary matters, including governance, potential liability, and best practices, and assists financial institutions with complex prohibited transaction, trust and custody, required disclosure, and plan asset matters. Allison also is experienced with benefits advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and lending transactions, including private equity and private fund transactions, as well as analyzing ERISA implications of fund structure and certain operations.

Experience

Representative matters

Assisted Kennametal in connection with a $605 million acquisition of the Tungsten Materials Business of Allegheny Technologies, Inc.
Counsel MSA Safety regarding all aspects of qualified and nonqualified plan compliance.
Represented SPINS LLC, a leading wellness-focused data, analytics and technology provider in the U.S., in its transaction involving a strategic investment from Warburg Pincus.

Recognitions

  • Ranked in Chambers USA for Pennsylvania Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, 2025
  • Named to Pittsburgh Magazine/PUMP’s 40 Under 40 class, 2024
  • Honored as one of the Lawyers on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer, 2018

Credentials

Education

  • Duquesne University School of Law, 2009, J.D., summa cum laude; 2009 Pittsburgh Tax Club Award; CALI Award for Excellence in Taxation of Corporations & Partnerships, Senior Staff Member and Assistant Comment Editor, Duquesne Law Review; Member of National Appellate Tax Moot Court Team, 2008-2009
  • St. Bonaventure University, 2004, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude; Outstanding Political Science Graduate, 2004

Professional admissions & qualifications

  • Pennsylvania

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