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Dundas & Wilson CS LLP recently represented the University of Glasgow at the Court of Session, winning dismissal of a £1.5m exit debt claim brought by the City of Edinburgh Council on behalf of Lothian Pension Fund. David Knox leads the team and is recommended.

The team at Pinsent Masons LLP gives ‘practical, commercial and understandable advice’, and practice head Ian Gordon is ‘excellent’.

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s clients include Scottish Widows Retirement Benefits Scheme and Universal Music Group Pension Scheme. Recent work includes advising Beam on an internal reorganisation. The team is ‘client focused and highly responsive’.

Brodies LLP’s pensions team expanded in 2011 when it hired Juliet Bayne from Maclay Murray & Spens LLP. It has seen a growing number of trustee appointments, and advised the trustees of the Educational Institute of Scotland’s pension scheme and the trustees of the Howden Group pension plan.

Burness LLP provide ‘seamless service’ to clients, which include Kwik-Fit, Diodes Zetex Limited and ITN. Recent work includes advising Jacobs Manufacturing Company retirement benefits scheme on a scheme re-documentation. The ‘approachable and professional’ Sarah Phillips now leads the team, following Vanessa Ingram’s departure to establish her own firm.

DWF Biggart Baillie’s team provides ‘first-class service’. Recent work includes advising the University of Dundee on the review and amendment of its pension scheme, and it has also acted for the Highland Council. ‘Leading expert’ Iain Talman and associate Katie Kerr are ‘approachable and easy to work with’.

New clients for MacRoberts LLP include The Institute of Healthcare Management pension scheme and The Scottish Council for Development and Industry. The team gives ‘high-quality service demonstrating depth of knowledge’, and its advice is ‘commercial and practical’. Practice head Peter Trotter and newly promoted partner Martyn Shaw ‘stand out for their knowledge, quality of service and practical solutions’.

Maclay Murray & Spens LLP advised British Polythene Industries and Vallourec Mannesmann on their new definitive trust deed and rules, and Weir Group on its final salary schemes.

Tods Murray LLP’s pensions practice is led by Martin Thurston Smith, and works closely with the firm’s employment group. Work undertaken includes advising on occupational pension schemes and trustees’ duties and powers.

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Legal Developments in Scotland for Pensions

  • Personal accounts and auto-enrolment: looking ahead

    The government plans to introduce a new national ‘personal accounts’ pension system in 2012. From October of that year, all employers will be required to auto-enrol eligible employees into either the government’s new personal accounts scheme or, if it meets certain ‘qualifying’ criteria, the employer’s own pension arrangement.
    - Eversheds LLP

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