Monica Ma > Keystone Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Keystone Law
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England

Work Department

Pensions and employee share schemes.

Position

Monica has advised on employee benefits for over 20 years, specialising particularly in pensions and share incentive arrangements. She has wide-ranging experience of all types of employee benefits work, including the establishment of share incentive plans and pension plans. She also provides support on the employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions including M&As, flotations, joint ventures, and corporate restructures as well as executive termination. Areas of expertise include benefit designs and changes; compliance; amalgamation; winding-up; trustees/employers’ powers and duties; investment management agreements; deficit issues and pension disputes; ombudsman cases; establishment and benefit changes; compliance; institutional investors’ guidelines; relevant codes and market practice.

Career

Trained Simmons & Simmons; qualified 1992; associate; partner 2000; consultant solicitor, Keystone Law 2014.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)

Keystone Law‘s pensions practice – which notably features the highly experienced Monica Ma – assists both trustees and employers in all types of pensions issues, with its recent work including advising on pensions aspects of corporate transactions. The team regularly collaborates with Isle of Man-based Ben Hughes, who is particularly adept at assisting on both domestic and international pensions issues, as well as with its colleagues in other departments such as financial services, corporate, and tax. It is complimented for its provision of an ‘extremely courteous and competent service’.