Adam Bushby
London
Partner, Pensions
T+44 20 7759 6515
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Professional
Lawrence Graham LLP, Partner, 2007 to date.
Norton Rose, Senior Associate (2003-2006)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Associate/ Senior Associate (1998-2003)
Eversheds, 1994-1998 (qualified 1996)

Expertise
  • All areas of the law relating to occupational and personal pension schemes, including their establishment, funding issues, administration, alteration, taxation, closure and winding-up
  • The merger of occupational pension schemes
  • The pensions aspects of multi-jurisdictional and UK private acquisitions and disposals, including the moral hazard provisions of the Pensions Act 2004 and the making of clearance applications to the UK Pensions Regulator
  • The pensions aspects of IPOs (including AIM) and demergers
  • The pensions aspects of PPP and PFI projects and public sector pension schemes for central and local government, banks and contractors
  • Strategic reviews of employers' pension arrangements and the implementation of new benefit structures
  • Employers' liabilities in relation to industry-wide pension schemes, such as the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme, Merchant Navy Occupational Pension Fund and the Pilots National Pension Fund
  • Pensions aspects of the termination of employment
  • Shareholder activism for trustees of occupational pension schemes and investment funds


Experience
Principal clients worked for include, Hitachi Data Systems, The Pensions Regulator, PPF, National Gypsum,  Drax, ICI, Norsk Hydro ASA, BMW, GATX, Universities Superannuation Scheme, Xchanging, Falck, AXA, The Rank Group, Stena, CIBC, Johnson Wax, Bouygues and Kingfisher.

Testimonials

Adam Bushby "will always provide advice that will look at what's best for the trustees and the company. He looks from both sides of the fence." Chambers 2012

Adam Bushby is ‘able to understand the issues in an instant’. The Legal500 2011



Services

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Charities
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Employee benefits
  • Dispute resolution
  • Pensions

Sectors
  • Financial institutions
  • Public sector
  • Media, sports and communications
  • Technology

Memberships
  • Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers (APL)
  • Member of the International Pensions and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association (IPEBLA)


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