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Paul Ashcroft

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Work Department

Pensions & Employee Benefits

Position

Paul is an associate specialising in all aspects of pensions and employee benefits legal advice for trustee, employer and private clients.

Paul advises a wide range of pension scheme trustee boards and sponsoring employers on all aspects of UK defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes including auto-enrolment, closure to accrual, equalisation, GMPs, member communications, pension sharing, scheme transfers, scheme wind-ups, TUPE and all other pensions matters. Paul is recognised as the ‘go to’ member of the team for drafting all forms of pension scheme documentation from amendment deeds and resolutions to appointment and removal deeds.

Paul also specialises in employee benefits work with a particular focus on drafting scheme documentation for employee incentive arrangements to both UK and offshore arrangements.

Career

Paul qualified as a solicitor in 2017 and joined the team in 2019 having previously trained at a London firm. Paul studied law at the University of Warwick. Paul is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and has presented at the APL Beginner’s Course for up and coming pensions lawyers.