Katherine A. Heptig
Partner
Katherine A. Heptig
Partner
Kate subscribes to the notion that just because it’s business, doesn’t mean it’s not personal. As a creative, solution-oriented practitioner, she tailors a unique strategy to each client’s situation. Whether advising businesses or individuals, she knows that understanding stakeholder dynamics is key to providing practical, effective guidance.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (516) 357-3421
Fax: (516) 357-3333
926 RXR Plaza
Uniondale, NY, 11556
Practice Groups
Bar Admission
New York
A partner in the firm’s Business Dissolution, Corporate, Health Services, Trusts & Estates, and Tax Practice Groups, Kate focuses on transactional tax law and executive compensation; general business law relating to corporations, LLCs and partnerships; and ERISA/employee benefits matters (a specialty in which she earned her LL.M.) including multi-employer health and welfare, and retirement plan issues for plan sponsors and participants.
She advises individuals and businesses across a broad range of industries in each of these substantive areas of law in connection with corporate operations and reorganizations; sales and acquisitions of businesses; tax-free spin-offs; executive compensation arrangements; qualified and non-qualified pension and deferred compensation plans; equity, incentive compensation, change in control and severance arrangements; business succession planning; executive employment agreements; shareholder and operating agreements; joint ventures; corporate governance; commercial contracts; and audit and other tax controversy matters.
Kate advises physicians, group medical practices, and other types of health care clients on transactional matters from tax, regulatory, and corporate governance standpoints, and she has experience establishing MSO corporate structures for licensed professionals in a variety of fields, in addition to preparing such entities for investments through private placements. Kate also represents not-for-profit corporations with respect to formation and securing tax-exempt status, as well as on operational issues, compensation matters, and corporate governance.
Kate is a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
Court Admissions
U.S. Tax Court
Bar Affiliations
Nassau County Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
Education
John Marshall Law School, LL.M. in Employee Benefits
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D.
Hofstra University, B.A.
News & Publications
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54 Rivkin Radler Attorneys Named 2025 New York Metro Super Lawyers®/Rising Stars
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Over 25 Percent of Rivkin Radler Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers in America®
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56 Rivkin Radler Attorneys Named 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers®/Rising Stars
October 24 | 2024
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In 2025, Kate was selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list for Tax and was selected to the Rising Stars list in 2014 (Business/Corporate) and 2015 (Tax).
She received Long Island Business News’ 50 Most Influential Women in Business in 2016.
In 2013, she received Long Island Business News’ Leadership in Law-Associate award and in 2016, the publication named her one of its 40 Under 40. Kate has been named to the Best Lawyers in America® list for Health Care Law since 2025.
Since 2016, the Health Services Practice Group has been recognized in the Chambers USA directory.
