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Burges Salmon LLP fields a sizeable team, and its overall service is ‘exemplary in every respect’. It advised Western Power Distribution on pension agreements totalling £4bn. Great Lakes Pension Scheme, Yell and Oxford University Staff Pension Scheme are also clients. Richard Knight and Tim Illston are recommended.

Osborne Clarke’s pensions team has benefited from the addition of Keith Webster, who joined from CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Webster advised Wedgwood Group on a £220m pension plan fund, and the team also advised Bank of Ireland and the Environment Agency. Lead partner Jonathan Hazlett has ‘a superb mind’ and is extremely well regarded, and Paul Matthews has ‘gravitas and depth of experience’.

TLT LLP’s highly recommended Sasha Butterworth advised UPS on sectionalising a £150m pensions plan; and the Metropolitan Police Authority and MITIE Group are other notable clients of the team. The practice has developed a specialist pensions investment team. James Dean joined from Osborne Clarke.

Foot Anstey’s Comron Rowe is ‘highly knowledgeable’ and ‘good value for money’. The team acts for schemes with up to £50m assets, and advised trustees of the Trillium Pension Plan on a recent pension plan merger. Other clients include employers such as Odeon Cinemas and Plymouth University.

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  • TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS (PROTECTION OF EMPLOYMENT) AND AGE DISCRIMINATION

    I have been asked to cover the topic of Employment law within my half an hour speaking slot today. I have narrowed my subject down to Transfer of Undertakings and Discrimination, with the focus on providing an update on the recent spate of cases on service provision change and on the important developments in the law of age discrimination. Needless to say, in my presentation I shall not be able to cover the level of detail which is contained in my written paper, which I will leave you to read.
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