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Womble Bond Dickinson UK LLP

Rankings

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Pensions - UK-wide

Band 5

What the Team is Known For

Womble Bond Dickinson's team advises clients across an array of pensions matters, ranging from day-to-day scheme management to corporate transactions. The team possesses particular strength in the public and voluntary sectors. It fields a number of experienced advisers on defined benefit schemes, including management of staff transfers and closures to future accrual. Members of the team advise household-name corporate clients from industries including technology, consumer products and utilities.

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Work Highlights

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  • Womble Bond Dickinson continued to advise the trustees of the Raleigh Pension Scheme on a buy-in with Legal & General.

Strengths

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  • The team is commercially aware of what is happening and of changes on the horizon.

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  • Womble Bond Dickinson has a broad, well-resourced team with specialist expertise.

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  • The team's knowledge and expertise have proved invaluable. There hasn't been any occasion where they were unable to meet my requirements.

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  • The team is very proactive on all pension related matters.

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  • The client team takes the time to understand us as a business and provide advice in that context.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Tracy Walsh
    Tracy Walsh

    Tracy Walsh

    Tracy Walsh advises clients on employer debt regimes and the pensions aspects of outsourcing and corporate transactions. She also has experience of pension contribution rate amendments.

    • Tracy is clear, calm and professional in the application of her advice in a timely and cost-effective way.

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    • Tracy is extremely professional and a pleasure to work with.

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    • Tracy is clear and direct in her advice.

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    • Tracy provides high quality, commercial advice with clear recommendations for action. She is a really good sounding board on pension matters.

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  • Suzanne Duff
    Suzanne Duff

    Suzanne Duff

    Suzanne Duff advises trustees and employers on a range of issues including liability management exercises, buy-ins and wind-ups. She has substantial experience of regulatory pensions issues, having worked for the Pensions Regulator and the DWP.

    • Suzanne is highly responsive and extremely knowledgeable in her chosen field. I could not recommend her highly enough.

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  • Gavin Ellison
    Gavin Ellison

    Gavin Ellison

    Gavin Ellison is a pensions expert who regularly works with both trustees and sponsoring employers. He is well experienced in supporting clients in work related to auto-enrolment.

    • Gavin delivers an excellent level of service.

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  • Martin Poore
    Martin Poore

    Martin Poore

    Martin Poore is head of Womble Bond Dickinson's UK pensions team. He acts on complex funding arrangements, bulk annuity purchases and the pensions aspects of corporate transactions for both employers and trustees.

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