Our Pensions Law team recognise the challenges to trustees, employers and other stakeholders in this ever-changing environment. As a result, they are well-placed to assist with all aspects of workplace pensions law. Our expert team provide practical and commercial advice that is built on the varied experience and knowledge throughout the team and the firm.

Our highly-experienced Pensions Law team are supported by dispute resolution, corporate, insurance, finance and restructuring lawyers with pension expertise. This enables us to provide a complete service to our clients and means we cover all of the key areas of law associated with pension arrangements.

Our working procedures and processes are tailored to suit client requirements. Fundamental to this is fully understanding our clients’ needs, pension commitments and working practices.

Our team members also act as trustees and as consultants on pensions issues. Due to this, they are able to help with the practical issues, as well as the legal points.

Our approach goes beyond the provision of legal advice relating to UK pensions law. We pride ourselves on being strategic thinkers.

Pension obligations are generally long term. We therefore seek to determine your long-term objectives and assist you with developing and/or refining your approach to managing risk and achieving your goals.

Understanding our clients' strategic objectives is key to our approach. For example, where clients have acquired entities with defined benefit liabilities, we offer a holistic service to identify and manage liabilities, address volatility and improve governance. This often produces significant cost savings for clients, especially where they are looking to sell such entities within a stated timeframe.

Our clients tell us we are user-friendly, approachable and innovative in our service delivery. For example, we are well-known for our pragmatic approach and we are frequently asked to provide a second opinion on pension scheme issues in order to resolve a deadlock between key stakeholders (including corporate sponsors, trustees and their advisors) where an issue has been identified that could give rise to significant liabilities. In many cases, we are able to identify practical solutions, saving clients significant sums of money.