Keystone Law advises trustees, employers, and institutional investors on a range of pensions and employee benefits matters, including scheme restructuring, compliance, and transactional support. The team is jointly led by Monica Ma, who is experienced in employee benefits matters, such as incentive plans and healthcare trusts, and David Griffiths, who is regularly instructed on buyout transactions, de-risking, and consolidation projects.
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Testimonials
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- Monica Ma is a highly experienced and pragmatic pensions lawyer.
- The direct approach to issues and arriving at workable, practicable solutions by Monica Ma at Keystone is excellent.
- All-around expertise and a professional approach. In-depth knowledge and excellence in problem-solving.
- Based on our total engagement, the department's strengths are its combination of deep, specialized legal expertise and familiarity with the regulators and their requirements. Specifically, their team demonstrated exceptional regulatory strategy, shown by their proactive approach in securing pre-approvals with regulatory bodies before formal submissions, thereby mitigating the risk of unexpected delays. The team was committed to billing transparency, most notably demonstrated by their openness to write down time to ensure the final billing remained within the original fee estimate and time delivery of invoices based on actual milestones achieved. This proactive adherence to the budget, combined with the successful execution of complex and sophisticated work, certainly provided strong overall value for our business.
- The team provides exemplary service, being open to addressing all matters, large and small, while recognizing that depending on the matter to be addressed, it will generate scale charges appropriate to our expectations.
Key clients
- Robertson Research International Group Pension Scheme
- Fugro Holdings Pension & Death Benefit Scheme
- PWC EE BV Pension Plan
- Ervin Germany Gmbh
- Metric Group Ltd
Other key lawyers
Monica Ma; David Griffiths