Firm Overview
Large commercial law firm in London is seeking a Pensions lawyer of 6 or more years PQE. The team acts for many recognised organisations, including:
Client Types
- Private or public companies
- Pension scheme trustees
- Financial institutions
- Insolvency practitioners
- Government bodies
Clients expect superb advice and service. The successful candidate will get involved with regulatory and trustee work as well as both contentious and non-contentious work. The team works on the Pensions elements of the most significant cross-border M&A transactions and also works on behalf of an enviable client base. They cover a wide range of pension matters, including:
- Day-to-day advice to trustees of pension schemes ranging in size from very small to over £1bn
- Preparation of benefit specifications, discretions tables and advising on benefit related issues, in preparation for pensions risk transfer or a strategic decision to run on
- Execution of risk transfer exercises, whether to consolidator or buy-in
- Advice on benefit discrepancies or interpretation issues within pension scheme rules
- Impact of legislative changes including changes resulting from case law (e.g. GMP equalisation)
- Scheme documentation
- Scheme benefit change exercises and liability reduction exercises
- The impact of corporate re-organisations and negotiating appropriate mitigation
- Scheme mergers
- Scheme wind ups
- Investment issues, including investment management agreements
You will play a key role on a variety of pension matters across a range of clients. You will also be expected to build and maintain client relationships as well as contributing to the marketing and business development efforts of the department.
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