Pensions
- Pension law, employment and social security law affecting pension schemes
- Establishing, changing and winding-up of pension schemes
- Drafting of pension regulations and other documentation
- Screening and updating of all pension scheme documentation
- Assisting with negotiations between employers and employee representatives and pension institutions
- Assisting employers with employee involvement and employee communication
- Screening of pension plan information in DB2P at the request of employers
- Due diligence and compliance screening
- GDPR compliance assessment, and advice on other data protection and cybersecurity related questions
- Adapting pension schemes and pension vehicles to post-M&A situations
- Merger and transfer of pension schemes
- Discrimination issues
- Harmonisation of white collar and blue collar pension schemes
- Pension schemes for senior executives and management companies
- Setting up of pension funds, local or pan-European (IORP Directive)
- (Re)organisation and governance of pension funds, internal and external control regulations
- Regulatory matters related to pension funds and insurance companies
- Legal aspects of recovery plans and insolvency-related issues confronting pension institutions and sponsors, and the impact of the solvency regulations on pension funding
- Insurance and reinsurance services and mediation in Belgium, for both EEA and non-EEA (re)insurance undertakings (e.g. European passport or licensing requirements, compliance, “general good” provision)
- Liability issues for pension fund board members and employers
- Training of board members
- Pension legislation (first and second pillars) in the private and public sectors, and in particular all pension aspects related to privatisation
- Assistance with contacts with the FSMA
- Representation before the civil and labour courts, the Constitutional Court and the Council of State in all pension related matters, including State liability
