Pensions

About

Provided by Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Our team of specialist pensions lawyers has experience of all forms of UK based pension and life assurance arrangements, advising employees, trustees and intermediaries. We have an in-depth understanding of a broad range of scheme types, including defined benefit (final salary and career average schemes), defined contribution and hybrid schemes. Our lawyers also provide support on other pension arrangements such as contractual and stakeholder arrangements, small self-administered schemes and self-invested personal pensions and obligations under the 'auto-enrolment' regime for workplace pensions.

Examples of recent areas of focus include scheme funding issues (such as negotiating security and Pension Protection Fund levy issues); pension matters in corporate restructuring exercises and company sales; scheme mergers; rule consolidation projects; scheme amendments (including closure exercises) and pensions related disputes.

We have detailed knowledge of the special rules on pensions which apply in the public sector in particular in relation to transfers of staff to the private sector.

Our approachable team has many years of experience in top City and regional pensions practices within leading law firms.