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A&L Goodbody

Employment

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A&L Goodbody

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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.

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Employment - Ireland

Band 1

Band 1


What the Team is Known For
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.

Work Highlights

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  • A&L Goodbody acted for Becton Dickinson on its closure of its Drogheda facility, resulting in over 200 redundancies and related industrial issues.

Strengths

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  • A&L consistently provides the highest-quality advice, offering clear and pragmatic guidance on complex matters.

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  • A&L Goodbody offers excellent technical legal advice on employment matters delivered in a practical, easy-to-understand manner.

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  • The team is highly responsive, pragmatic and commercial in its advice, ensuring that complex issues are translated into clear and actionable solutions.

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  • A&L Goodbody provides high-quality advice and excellent customer service.

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  • Lawyers in the firm demonstrate technical excellence combined with a commercial approach.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 1Chris Comerford
    Band 1Chris Comerford

    Chris Comerford

    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 an excellent lawyer with great client skills.

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    • Chris delivers insightful, practical and commercially relevant advice.

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    • Chris is very calm, clearly an expert and really understands his client's needs.

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    • He is extremely responsive and knowledgeable.

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  • Band 1David Main
    Band 1David Main

    David Main

    David Main focuses his practice on pensions matters. He advises on the pension 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.

    • David is easy to deal with, smart and commercial.

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    • David has deep technical knowledge, with excellent client service and business acumen.

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    • David Main is a superstar.

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  • Band 2David Francis
    Band 2David Francis

    David Francis

    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 and defined benefit plans.

    • David Francis is a very strong, straight-talking lawyer.

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    • David is extremely thorough, takes the time to understand the specific question that he's being asked and is very practical in coming up with suggestions.

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    • David is always determined to get to the answer and is extremely hard-working.

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  • Band 2Michael Doyle
    Band 2Michael Doyle

    Michael Doyle

    Michael Doyle handles a broad remit of employment topics, including the labour aspects of corporate transactions, enforcement of restrictive covenants, senior executive exit arrangements, collective redundancies and disciplinary issues. Additionally, he advises on HR matters such as remote working and data protection.

    • Michael Doyle is an excellent partner to the business. He is pragmatic and commercial.

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  • Band 3Jeff Greene
    Band 3Jeff Greene

    Jeff Greene

    Jeff Greene regularly assists with the labour law aspects of cross-border M&A and corporate transactions, including health and safety aspects, remuneration and incentive schemes.

    • Jeff Greene is very knowledgeable in both international and local labour law. He is also efficient and responsive.

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  • Band 4Bríd Nic Suibhne
    Band 4Bríd Nic Suibhne

    Bríd Nic Suibhne

    Bríd NicSuibhne assists clients with cross-border employment investigations, collective redundancies and disputes. She also advises on the employment aspects of investments and M&A activity.

    • She provides excellent, pragmatic advice on very complicated Irish employment law issues. She is a joy to work with.

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    • Bríd is an excellent lawyer who is responsive and provides practical advice.

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  • Band 4Noeleen Meehan
    Band 4Noeleen Meehan

    Noeleen Meehan

    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 Meehan is a business partner in the truest sense of the word – a knowledgeable adviser who is always responsive and keeps client priorities and risk appetite front of mind at all times.

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    • Noeleen is an excellent partner in employment matters. She has an in-depth knowledge of the company and understands the employment issues that it encounters due to her wide breadth of experience and excellent competency.

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  • Associates to watchAoife Malone
    Associates to watchAoife Malone

    Aoife Malone

    Aoife Malone assists clients with defined contribution or defined benefit plan arrangements, scheme restructurings, pensions-related litigation proceedings and IORP II compliance. She also advises on the pension aspects of M&A transactions.

    • Aoife Malone is outstanding; she is easy to get on with, very proactive and presents information in a detailed way that hits the nail on the head while relaying information to the ordinary reader.

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