Laurie Kuijpers

Practice Areas

Laurie is a partner in employment, incentives and pensions practice and has more than 10 years of experience in employment and employee benefit matters, with a specialisation and strong focus on Dutch and European pension law. She represents pension funds, insurance companies and large national and international companies on pension related issues. Laurie’s ample experience includes, amongst others, involvement of (international) harmonisation and de-risking of pension schemes, liquidation and consolation of pension funds, duty of care issues, M&A transactions, the technical and financial aspects of the complex implementation contracts and mandatory participation in mandatory industry-wide pension funds. She also regularly advises and litigates on high-profile and contentious pension disputes.

Furthermore, Laurie has significant experience in representing clients in consultation and negotiation procedures with works councils and unions, dismissal of managing directors and remuneration structures and sector-specific regulations on remuneration in the financial sector. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and courses on pension law aspects and regularly publishes articles on employment- and pension law matters in professional journals. Laurie is a member of the association for pension lawyers, IPEBLA and ViiP, a professional network for women in financial (pension) institutions and registered as a certified pension lawyer (CPL).