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, Société Générale, 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.

Professional

Eversheds, 1994-1998 (qualified 1996)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Associate/ Senior Associate (1998-2003)
Norton Rose, Senior Associate (2003-2006)
LG, Partner, 2007 to date.

Publications

Has written articles on pensions issues in journals including:

• Pensions Week
• Pensions Age
• Professional Pensions
• IHL
• The opdu Report
• PMI News
• Bloomberg Business Law Journal

Adam is frequently quoted on pensions issues in the national press.

Professional Memberships

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