Pensions

• Financial Services
• Life Sciences
• Technology

Advisory Services

Our Pensions Team can provide our clients with expert advice at every stage of their journey. We have a depth of expertise in advising on all scheme types including defined contribution, defined benefit and master trust arrangements. We also have a very high level of expertise in handling amendments to scheme governing documents and advising on regulatory changes.

Pension Plan Design & Implementation

We are involved in all aspects of pension plan design and implementation and have developed a unique expertise in master trusts. Our work here typically involves drafting or reviewing a wide range of documentation for all types of pension schemes. We have expertise in drafting pension trust documentation, service provider agreements, member packs and pension scheme policy and procedure documents.

• Advising a life office on the establishment of two master trusts to cater for both group and one-member arrangements. Our work involved the drafting of all scheme governing documents, preparation of policy documentation and ensuring compliance with IORP II requirements.
• Acting for a large independent pension provider and investment firm in appealing a decision of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to the High Court.
• Advising the trustees of a large renewable energy company on the implications of the closure of its defined benefit scheme and how best to protect member benefits
• Assisting a UK pensions specialist law firm in completing a buy-in for a large dual approved defined benefit scheme including advising on the Irish pensions law requirements relating to the revaluation of benefits.
• Advising a multinational financial services corporation on the establishment of a cross-border pension established in another Member State and in compliance with the new Irish cross-border pension rules introduced on transposition of the IORP II Directive.
• Advising one of the country’s largest representative bodies for pension providers in achieving compliance for its members with the regulations transposing the IORP II Directive and the Pensions Authority’s Code of Practice.

Please contact our team if you have a pensions law or employment law and benefits question that is not answered here.