Our expert pensions lawyers provide high quality pensions legal advice in non-contentious and contentious matters. Our team is one of the largest in the UK, acting for over 750 clients in both the private and public sectors. We advise employers and trustees with defined benefit, defined contribution and hybrid schemes.
Our pensions lawyers support trustees to improve the governance of schemes and manage potential risks. We have extensive experience of guiding trustees through tricky issues including corporate transactions, funding negotiations (including moral hazard) and the management of past errors.
Our pensions lawyers also advise employers on the impact of their pension obligations on their business, supporting them to achieve their corporate goals such as restructuring, scheme merger, benefit change, funding or enhanced transfer value exercises.
Our aim is always to give clear and pragmatic advice, to draft complex documents in plain English and to be a pleasure to work with.
Areas of focus
For trustees, our expertise includes the following:
- Innovative funding, documenting, merging and splitting of schemes.
- Governance issues and risk management.
- Exercising trustees' duties, powers and discretions.
- Insolvency of the employer and assessment for the Pension Protection Fund.
For employers, our expertise includes the following:
- Strategies for amending, reconstructing and terminating schemes, as well as scheme funding.
- Moral hazard clearance.
- Managing statutory debts and withdrawal arrangements.
- Redundancy and dismissal.