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Pensions and employee benefits
Leading individuals
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- Eamon Brady A&L Goodbody
- Brian Buggy Matheson Ormsby Prentice
- Maureen Dolan McCann FitzGerald
- Declan Drislane Arthur Cox
- Peter Fahy Eversheds
- Fiona Thornton LK Shields Solicitors
- Michael Wolfe William Fry
A&L Goodbody’s ‘consistently outstanding’ practice includes pensions expert Eamon Brady, whose ‘superior level singles him out as unique among his peers’, and Sheena Doggett, who leads on share schemes, including advising Genzyme and Trintech on scheme revisions due to M&A.
Arthur Cox has added significantly to its pensions practice, having recently attracted new clients Amgen, BASF and Cadbury. Team head Declan Drislane advised the Pensions Board on the Pensions Act preservation regime as well as Zurich on the pension consequences of outsourcing.
Eversheds is ‘excellent in all areas’, and Peter Fahy stands out for his ‘business acumen, practical solutions and balanced and fair advice’. The team advised trustees of the Goodyear Dunlop Ireland Pension Scheme, and CIE as the administrator of CIE’s two main defined benefit schemes.
Fiona Thornton leads LK Shields Solicitors’ experienced team, which advised BSS Group on the effect of the Travis Perkins takeover on share plans, and represented ConocoPhillips in successfully defending a pension benefits claim made by a former chief executive.
Matheson Ormsby Prentice advised State Street on pensions and employment law aspects of its €57m acquisition of Bank of Ireland Asset Management. Practice head Brian Buggy is ‘knowledgeable in all aspects of pensions, legal and practical’.
McCann FitzGerald’s ‘first-class’ group advises Guinness Ireland trustees on its pension schemes and is advising Bord Gáis on merging seven existing benefit schemes. Maureen Dolan is ‘outstanding’.
William Fry provides ‘top drawer’, ‘pragmatic and appropriate’ advice. Recent instructions include advising Nestlé Ireland Pension Fund Trustees on the winding up of a defined benefit scheme and the proposed transfer of all assets and liabilities to a scheme in Belgium. Michael Wolfe is ‘an excellent pensions lawyer’.
Eugene F. Collins’ practice head Maura Connolly advised Modus Link on a range of issues including transfer of undertaking issues and threats of litigation.
Mason Hayes & Curran provides ‘very intelligent, savvy advice’. The team, which is led by Ian O’Herlihy, advised Valero Energy and Clondalkin on pensions aspects of M&A deals.
Beauchamps Solicitors advised a senior financial services executive in negotiating settlement terms including share options, pensions and other benefits.
ByrneWallace represented ten individual members of the UNITE trade union in a pensions dispute with the Irish government.
McDowell Purcell advised the trustees of Clondalkin Group Executive Pension Scheme on the winding up of the scheme.
WhitneyMoore advises on a wide range of pensions and benefits matters including assisting a multinational with the closure of its defined benefit scheme and the implementation of a defined contribution scheme.