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What the Team is Known For

Womble Bond Dickinson has a strong team that 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.

Work Highlights

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  • Womble Bond Dickinson advised the trustee on its project to complete the buyout and wind-up of the VA Tech UK Pension Scheme.

Strengths

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The technical knowledge of the team is high.

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The lawyers are abreast of pension legislation and aware of the changes in the market.

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Womble Bond Dickinson are responsive, helpful and pragmatic in all of our dealings with them.

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Notable Practitioners

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Suzanne Duff
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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 has a strength in understanding regulators.

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Gavin Ellison
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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.

We receive great service from Gavin.

Gavin is excellent.

Gavin is very thorough and extremely hard-working.

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Martin Poore
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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.

Martin has deep knowledge and experience of the subject matter. He also has a deft ability for explaining things.

Martin is a very good technical lawyer.

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Suzanne Duff
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Gavin Ellison
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Martin Poore
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