Tomer Vandsburger Counsel

Tomer Vandsburger advises employers with the design and administration of their employee benefit plans, including assisting with plan drafting and compliance issues, and responses to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) plan audits and assessments. Tomer advises clients with Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Internal Revenue Code, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Affordable Care Act issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

Tomer also regularly advises health tech clients on HIPAA compliance issues throughout the development and implementation of digital health technologies. He also drafts HIPAA compliance policies and procedures, negotiates business associate agreements, reviews security breaches, analyzes breach notification options, and drafts responses to audits initiated by the Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of both health tech and traditional healthcare clients.

Another focus of Tomer’s practice is multiemployer pension plan (MEPP) issues for clients with unionized employees. He assists in reviewing the health and stability of MEPPs, develops strategies for addressing MEPP underfunding issues, and advises clients during the withdrawal process. A frequent author and presenter on MEPP topics, he is a contributing author to Bloomberg Law’s Benefits Guide: Basics, Defined Benefit Plans, Collectively Bargained Multiemployer Pension Plans: At-Risk Plans.

Tomer also maintains an active pro bono practice, preparing U-Visa applications on behalf of domestic violence victims who are seeking documented status. He also drafts discharge status upgrade applications on behalf of veterans who have been discharged from the armed forces with an other than honorable or less than honorable discharge status.

Before law school, Tomer taught American history to middle and high school students in a Title I school in Brooklyn, New York. He currently serves on the board of directors for Launch, a Seattle-based nonprofit providing affordable before- and after-school and summer programming to students in Title I schools in King County, Washington.