David Main is a Partner in A&L Goodbody's Pensions Group. 

Experience

He advises a wide range of Irish and international businesses and organisations on all aspects of their pensions affairs. In particular, he advises on scheme documentation, restructuring and winding-up, investment, dispute resolution, pensions products and on the pensions aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Market Recommendations

David is recommended by a number of leading legal publications, "David has a growing reputation and an active pensions practice…he is thorough and great to work with” (Chambers Europe, 2013). David is also rated by other publications including PLC Which Lawyer? 2011 and Chambers Europe 2010 and 2011, where he is described as "knowledgeable, approachable and thorough...excellent in every respect" and is recognised for his “superb expertise and ability to make the complex easily understood.”

Education

• B.Sc, University of Bristol, 1993
• Solicitor, Law Society of England and Wales, 1998
• Dip. IEB, Pensions Management Institute, 2001
• Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland, 2004
• Dip. Emp Law, University College Dublin, 2005

Professional activities

David qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 1998 and was admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland in 2004. He is the current Chairman of the Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland and is an associate member of the Irish Institute of Pension Managers and a fellow member of the Pensions Management Institute in the UK.