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Pensions
Our pensions team has an established reputation for offering pragmatic advice to a range of private and public sector organisations. The field of pensions is constantly evolving, and we use our technical knowledge and commercial acumen to provide clear, solution-driven advice.
Overview
We can help you navigate the increasing complexities and regulatory framework that pensions operate in. Each organisation has different requirements, and we will work with you to understand your unique circumstances and challenges – helping you find a solution aligned to your business goals.
We advise multiple stakeholders, including employers, trustees, insurers, and consultant clients on all aspects of pension law and practice in both the private and public sectors. We can advise on the full range of pension issues, including:
- The setting up and day-to-day running of trust-based occupational pension schemes, personal pension schemes, life assurance schemes, and private healthcare trusts, including regulatory, compliance, and operational matters
- Issues arising from participating in, and managing, public service pension schemes
- Transactions and projects, including the pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions/disposals and restructurings
- The legal aspects of investment matters and scheme funding, including buy-ins and buy-outs
Above all, clients tell us they value advice that is clear, practical, and helps them respond to emerging issues. Our approach is designed to help you make informed decisions quickly, respond effectively, and achieve your commercial objectives.
Featured experience
National pension schemes
Advising the Scheme Advisory Board for the Firefighters' Pension Scheme
Private trusts
Establishing a private healthcare trust for a global investment bank
Outsourcing
Guiding NHS organisations through the pension implications of outsourcing and Fair Deal requirements
Life assurance scheme
Advising an international insurer on issues linked to its excepted group life assurance scheme
Advisory
Advising a global business on pension benefit changes affecting about 13,000 employees
FAQs
We work with employers, trustees, insurers, and professional advisers across the private and public sectors. Our experience covers a wide range of governance models and scheme structures, enabling us to advise multiple stakeholders with confidence.
We can advise on trust-based occupational pension schemes, public service pension schemes, personal pension schemes, life assurance arrangements, and private healthcare trusts. This includes establishing new schemes and on the legal and operational issues that arise over time.
Yes. We support organisations with the legal and regulatory aspects of running pension schemes day to day, including compliance, governance and responding to changes in legislation or guidance.
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