Strategic pensions advice

Our experienced team provides comprehensive advice on all pensions-related matters, including funding and covenant issues, scheme design, governance and the termination and administration of pension arrangements. Our experts in pension law can offer strategic solutions to help clients effectively manage their pension schemes.

Whether you operate in the corporate, charity or not-for-profit sector, our experienced team of pensions lawyers can advise you on all pensions related matters including funding and covenant issues relating to your pension arrangement and how to deal with matters efficiently and effectively. If you are restructuring your operations, contracting out services or considering changing terms and conditions for your workforce, we can offer tailored, practical, strategic pensions advice.

In brief

  • Advising on rights and obligations under multi-employer pension schemes, including salary linked benefits and apportionment of pension liabilities
  • Advising on contingent assets including charges over property to reduce PPF levy or underpin an employer's liability to a pension scheme 
  • Resolving scheme deficit funding issues and robustly challenging funding decisions in private sector and public sector arrangements
  • Advising on the day to day running of pension schemes including member disputes (including IDRP procedures), governance, compliance and rule interpretation

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08 March 2022 | Author: Martin McFall

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When I first heard the phrase "levelling up" in the Government's White Paper, I was initially reminded of the poet William Blake.  Like Blake's poetry, the words "levelling up" can appear deceptively simple, but the imagery and meaning can be complex, requiring deeper analysis to penetrate and unravel the manifold meaning.