Christopher Condeluci focuses his practice on employee benefits and tax policy, with a specific emphasis on health care reform, retirement and compensation policy. As former Tax Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, Chris actively participated in the health reform debate and he is one of the few senior staffers to join the private sector since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Through his experience on Capitol Hill and the development of this important legislation, Mr. Condeluci helps clients with compliance with the new health care law. He can also advise on shaping any future health care-related legislative initiatives that may affect his clients. Furthermore, Mr. Condeluci has significant technical experience in retirement planning, more specifically tax-qualified retirement plans.

His experience also includes offshore deferred compensation, payroll taxes, education tax incentives (including 529 plans), cafeteria plans and health flexible spending and dependent care arrangements, health savings accounts, fringe benefit programs, and worker classification.

Prior to joining Venable, Mr. Condeluci served as Tax and Benefits Counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, where he represented the Senate Finance Committee in negotiating details of legislative policy changes on matters relating to health care, retirement, executive compensation, education tax incentives, payroll taxes, insurance tax, S Corporations, and other tax policy issues with Senate Leadership; the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means; and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.

Mr. Condeluci has written articles about retiree medical benefits and the defined benefit pension plan funding rules prescribed under the Pension Protection Act of 2006. He is also the co-author of a chapter on fiduciary issues in welfare plans in an ABA-commissioned book entitled ERISA Fiduciary Law and was a significant contributor to the Health Savings Account Answer Book and the ERISA Fiduciary Answer Book - relating health care reform issues. Mr. Condeluci frequently serves as speaker and commentator on a wide variety of health care, employee benefits and tax policy topics.