About
Eleanor Cunningham is a Partner and Head of the Pensions & Incentives Group at McCann FitzGerald LLP; she qualified in 2011 and became a partner in 2018. She advises financial institutions, semi-state bodies, companies, trustees, committees and employees on pension schemes, employee share plans and other incentive arrangements, including scheme restructuring, liability management, benefit design, trustee governance, funding proposals, mergers and scheme wind‑ups.
Practice areas
Pensions & Employee BenefitsEmployee Incentives & Share PlansCorporate / M&A
Office
Expertise
Defined Contribution (DC) SchemesDefined Benefit (DB) SchemesEmployee Share Plans and IncentivesScheme Restructuring & FundingLiability Management ExercisesTrustee GovernancePensions Aspects of Commercial TransactionsAdvising Financial Institutions and Semi‑state Bodies
Education
- LLM, University College Dublin, 2006
- LLM, Oxford University, 2007
Admissions
- The Law Society of Ireland, 2011