Our team delivers practical and tailored advice to help businesses and trustees manage their pension arrangements effectively, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks. Clients trust us to ensure pension arrangements are robust and strategically aligned with business goals.
How we help
- Ensuring compliance with automatic enrolment obligations and supporting employers with evolving duties.
- Advising on liability reduction for defined benefit schemes, helping businesses control costs and secure long-term savings.
- Ongoing scheme governance support for defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.
- Reliable day-to-day management of occupational pension schemes, including the preparation of deeds.
- Resolving pensions-related disputes, from internal resolutions to ombudsman claims and court proceedings.
- Managing pension aspects of corporate transactions, addressing statutory debts and regulatory powers.
- Supporting buy-outs and winding-up processes of pension schemes to achieve efficient outcomes.
- Identifying and correcting errors in scheme rule drafting, ensuring the integrity of pension agreements.
Our experience includes
- Providing a long-standing repeat acquirer in the education sector with pensions due diligence and legal input on transaction documents for each nursery acquisition.
- Advising a travel company on winding up its final salary pension scheme, analysing trust deed rules to ensure solvent closure and avoid unintended consequences or trustee complications.
- Reviewing and validating a construction and development company's decision to replace individual trustees with a corporate trustee for its pension fund, confirming the process was legitimate and appropriate.
- Advising an insurer on complicated pensions issues in relation to an acquisition, flagging potential pension liabilities in relation to the target’s defined benefit/final salary pension scheme, then negotiating constructively with the seller to overcome all possible obstacles and successfully complete the transaction.
- Advising a group of trustees of a pension scheme on their duties following the death of the sole member/beneficiary.
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