Employment
Europe Guide 2024 : Ireland
Band 1
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Our Employment, Pensions & Incentives team is a market-leading multi-disciplinary team. The team’s diverse expertise facilitates fully integrated advice on all facets of strategic and operational human resource and remuneration issues. In addition to operational and best practice advisory work, the team work closely with other legal areas within the firm to advise on HR and remuneration issues related to:
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Restructuring & insolvencies
- Redundancy
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Industrial action
With specialists in both our Dublin and Belfast offices, we are able to provide clients with an all-island service.
Our Employment Law Group assists and advises on all issues of individual and collective employment relations. We work closely with our clients, advising on strategic and operational HR issues in order to maintain good employment relationships.
Our Pensions Group is a market leader and one of the largest pensions practices in Ireland. We provide Irish and international, private and public sector clients with expert advice and experienced direction on every aspect of occupational pension schemes and personal pension arrangements.
Our specialist Incentives Group is a market leader in advising on the many employee incentive scheme solutions in the Irish market. We work closely with clients to guide them through the range of available incentives as well as the related legal, tax, regulatory, and corporate governance issues arising from their incentive plans.
Chambers Review
A&L Goodbody has an impressive practice with leading employment and pensions teams acting for clients from a range of sectors. The law firm is renowned for handling high-end employment disputes and large-scale transactional matters, advising on an extensive range of issues such as TUPE and collective redundancies. The team acts for several large trustees and employers on the restructuring of pensions schemes and related litigation, often for clients in the finance and insurance sectors. It regularly acts on cross-border matters. A&L Goodbody further assists with protected disclosure matters, GDPR compliance topics and data protection regulations.
Strengths
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"A&L Goodbody has the breadth of experience and individual talent to advise on extremely complicated matters where a number of different areas of law intersect and sometimes conflict. They offer informed, practical advice."
"They can join the dots and they are a one-stop shop for all related employment issues."
"A&L Goodbody has handled all of our matters, both complex and sophisticated, in a highly professional manner at all times, with the best outcomes achieved at all times."
"A&L Goodbody has the breadth of experience and individual talent to advise on extremely complicated matters where a number of different areas of law intersect and sometimes conflict. They offer informed, practical advice."
"They can join the dots and they are a one-stop shop for all related employment issues."
"A&L Goodbody has handled all of our matters, both complex and sophisticated, in a highly professional manner at all times, with the best outcomes achieved at all times."
Notable Practitioners
David Main focuses his practice on pensions matters. He advises on the pensions considerations of large cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions. He also advises on projects to convert existing schemes, assists with the outsourcing of pension administration services, handles disputes with scheme members and advises trustees on various liability management and funding strategies.
Duncan Inverarity is a leading employment lawyer who is regularly instructed to tackle complex disciplinary processes, internal investigations and large-scale transfers of employees. He is also skilled at advising on shareholder matters and protected disclosure issues.
"Duncan Inverarity is an excellent partner to deal with; he provides a top-class service with top-class advice and representation."
"Duncan is strong at understanding the business and context that we operate in and aligning the legal guidance to that."
Chris Comerford advises on pensions issues arising from corporate and M&A transactions. He is instructed both by trustees and by large corporations to assist with scheme transfers, restructurings and IORP II compliance.
"Chris Comerford is meticulous in his approach while keeping the client's objectives always in focus."
David Francis has a solid presence in the pensions field, with experience in various issues relating to M&A, cross-border schemes, multi-employer defined contribution plans or defined benefit plans.
Michael Doyle handles a broad remit of employment topics, including the labour aspects of corporate transactions, enforcement of restrictive covenants, senior executive exit arrangements and disciplinary issues. Additionally, he advises on HR matters such as remote working and data protection.
"Michael Doyle's attention to detail is second to none."
"Michael provides an excellent client service, he demonstrates an extensive knowledge of employment law and he provides pragmatic and expert advice promptly."
Noeleen Meehan represents a range of clients including financial institutions and major corporations in contentious and non-contentious matters. She advises on collective redundancies, employee transfers and dismissals, protected disclosure and remuneration matters.
"Noeleen is a talented, responsive and practical adviser in all areas of employment law, with an extensive and unique understanding of the regulatory framework in which her clients operate."
Aoife Malone assists clients with defined contribution or defined benefit plan arrangements, scheme restructurings, pensions-related litigation proceedings and IORP II compliance.
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