• They pride themselves on understanding up front their client’s expectations and requirements and they continually strive to deliver the utmost level of quality in all dealings with clients.
• They endeavour to ensure that their advice is always relevant and practical.
• They continually strive to deliver the utmost level of quality in all dealings with clients.

Expertise of the pension law team includes:

• Representation on boards of trustees as independent principal officers or trustees on a variety of funds (from large self-administered funds to small externally administered funds and from defined benefit to defined contribution to hybrid funds)
• Representing funds, boards of trustees, employers, members and beneficiaries in High Court (as well as all the appeal forums), arbitration, Appeals Board, FAIS Ombud and Pension Fund Adjudicator litigation
• Offering strategic advice on fund structures, surplus apportionment schemes, the conversion of funds and outsourcing of pensioners, insured benefit arrangements and altering contribution rates
• Drafting of fund rules and amendments, contracts, policies and all forms of member communication
• Reviewing and drafting service level agreements including but not limited to, administration agreements, actuarial services agreements, consulting agreements, transmission management agreements, investment consulting agreements etc.
• Providing written or in-person trustee and member training
• Performing due diligence exercises to assess legal risks associated with transactions relating to transfers of businesses, employees and retirement funds
• Advising on and resolving other employee benefits matters involving medical schemes, share schemes and group policies for death or disability