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Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

ADELAIDE HOUSE, LONDON BRIDGE, LONDON, EC4R 9HA, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7760 1000
Fax:
Fax 020 7760 1111
DX:
92 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.blplaw.com
Email:

Norman M Russell

Tel:
Work +44 20 3400 1184
Email:
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

Work Department

Employment, pensions and incentives group.

Position

Head of pensions dealing with all pensions law issues; pensions cases of note include Brooks v Brooks (House of Lords) pensions and divorce; Hillsdown Holdings Plc v Pensions Ombudsman use of surplus; Dolphin Packaging Limited v Pensions Ombudsman (first appeal against the Ombudsman).

Career

Articled Paisner & Co (now Berwin Leighton Paisner); qualified 1977; partner since 1980; publications: author of Butterworths ‘Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents sections on Management Buy-outs and Pensions aspects of sales and purchases of Companies’; contributor Pensions Law and Practice (FT Law & Tax); writes weekly column for FT Business Magazine ‘Pensions Week’.

Languages

French.

Member

Association of Pension Lawyers; Clarity.

Education

University College School, London; Pembroke and Wolfson Colleges, Cambridge (1974 MA Hons).

Leisure

Family, walking, French rivers.

Practice Areas

Pensions (non contentious); Pensions - dispute resolution

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