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Work Department

Pensions department

Position

Partner and head of pensions department specialising in all aspects of pensions work, advising both companies and trustees in connection with the trust law aspects of pension schemes, regulatory matters, deficits and surpluses, sales and purchases, scheme mergers, the preparation of documentation and investment arrangements; also advises in connection with independent trusteeship and litigation matters relating to pension funds. Cases include application to European Court of Justice in sex discrimination case of Neath v Hugh Steeper Limited; negotiating large-scale buy-outs for Alliance Unichem, Merchant Navy and Metlife; advising on National Bus, Drexel, Times Pension Fund, Post Office Insurance Society, Denny v Yeldon, South West Trains, AMP, Co-operative Insurance Society; IMG and Merchant Nacy cases; pensions aspects of many substantial sales and purchases; acts for clients such as Alliance Boots, Royal Mail, Serco, Sony and Merchant Navy.

Career

Articled Freshfields; partner Baker & McKenzie 1985; publication: Butterworth’s ‘Accountants’ Legal Service’.

Member

Past chairman of Association of Pension Lawyers; past secretary of International Employee Benefits Association; former non-executive director of the Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS).

Education

Maidenhead Grammar School; Clare College, Cambridge (BA Law; MA).

Leisure

Football, cricket, tennis, golf, archaeology, music.

Practice Areas

Pensions (non contentious); Pensions - dispute resolution