Pensions

We offer advice on legal and regulatory issues to all sections of the pensions industry including scheme trustees, employers, intermediaries, professional advisers, insurance companies and other providers of pension products and services. 

We can advise you on...

• All aspects of pension provision for employers and trustees 
• Pensions aspects of M&A, joint ventures, capital raising, restructuring, finance and insolvency, including applications to the Pensions Regulator for clearance of transactions
• Occupational pension scheme documentation and design for employers, trustees and insurance companies
• Scheme documentation, design and regulatory advice for insurance companies and other providers, e.g. stakeholder pension schemes, group personal and self-invested pension schemes, small self-administered schemes and group life assurance schemes
• Pension scheme disputes, Pension Ombudsman complaints and litigation
• Making strategic changes to pension provision including pension scheme mergers, restructuring pension arrangements and winding-up schemes
• Funding issues including scheme specific funding and employer covenant issues
• The use of contingent assets, including PPF guarantees
• Public sector pension arrangements including admission agreements in relation to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and alternative pension arrangements

Our aim is to give practical advice on any pensions issue, drawing upon our experience and expertise and that of other departments within the firm with specialist skills in tax, employment, dispute resolution, investment (including real estate) and local government law.  

Team members are active members of professional bodies including the Society of Pension Consultants, the Association of Pension Lawyers, the Pensions Management Institute and the International Pensions and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association.

Trustee Company

We have our own trustee company, Lawrence Graham Trust Corporation, which accepts appointments as independent trustee of all types of pension and pension arrangements.

Pensions Seminar - December 2007

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