I am currently principal at Paramount Pension Trustees Limited. Paramount Pension Trustees Limited is an independent professional pension trustee company that provides trustee services for both defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. I was principal at Brian Buggy Pensions Law. I have extensive experience in many areas of pensions and employee benefits law, with particular emphasis on employee benefit structures, establishment of employee benefit schemes, legislative drafting, establishment of revenue approved pension schemes, pensions regulatory compliance, pensions trusteeship issues and the establishment of revenue approved employee share ownership plans for public sector companies.I acted for a wide range of national and multinational employer companies, Government Departments, state bodies and trustees of pension schemes. I have advised on numerous large commercial transactions involving transfer of employees and I have extensive experience of complex documentation and benefits issues that arise in such transactions. I also have extensive experience working with public sector companies on the establishment of share plans for employees.I was appointed by the Minister of Social and Family Affairs as a member of the Pensions Board and I was a member of the Pensions Board in the period 2000-2005. I am a former chairman of the Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland and was a council member of the Irish Association of Pension Funds and associate member of the UK Association of Pension Lawyers. I am a member of the International Pensions and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association.I am a regular speaker at events, both in Ireland and overseas, on pensions and employee benefit issues. I am a contributor on pension and employee benefit issues to periodicals, professional journals and newspapers, and I am a joint author of Irish Pensions Law & Practice (2 ed) (2005).
Listed skills include Pensions, Commercial Litigation, Employee Benefits, Corporate Law, and 4 others.
