Arthur Cox

Employment: Pensions

Philip Smith is a partner and specialises in Pensions Law and Charity Law. Philip holds practising certificates in both Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Philip advises on all aspects of pension schemes both in advising trustees and employers on day to day administration, restructuring, funding, investment, governance, regulatory compliance, disputes, merger, amendment and in relation to corporate transactions. He is a former Chair of the Association of Pension Layers in Ireland and a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Pensions Management.

As coordinating partner of Arthur Cox’s Charity Law Group, he advises on the issues affecting charitable and not-for-profit organisations and their Directors/Trustees including advice on governance, regulatory compliance investigations, Revenue aspects mergers, restructurings, cy-pres, wind-up, trust law and fundraising. He is co-author, with Professor Oonagh Breen of UCD, of the Law of Charities in Ireland.

Admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland, 2006Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 1999Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practising), 1994

Former Chairman of the Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland (APLI)Member of Association of Pensions Lawyers (the UK organisation)Fellow and former Council member of the Irish Institute of Pensions ManagementMember of UK Charity Law AssociationMember of the firm’s CSR Advisory Board

BA, 1990, Oxford University.