David Knox
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Work Department
Pensions.
Position
Partner in charge of Dundas & Wilson’s pension law team. This team advises employers and trustees of occupational pension schemes, insurers and other providers of pension products and services. It also deals with the pension aspects of D&W’s clients’ corporate and scheme restructuring transactions in the public and private sectors, and supports law firms without ‘full-service’ presence in the UK. Work includes early identification of pension aims and problems, designing and documenting de-risking and other strategies with employers, lenders, investors, actuaries and other consultants to deliver agreed corporate objectives and updating scheme deeds and other pension law documentation.
Career
Commercial lawyer NEI Plc (now Rolls Royce) 1988; assistant Wilkinson Maughan (now Eversheds) 1991; associate and head of pensions law Ward Hadaway 1998; partner 2000; partner Dundas & Wilson 2005.
Languages
Intermediate French.
Member
Association of Pension Lawyers; National Association of Pensions Funds; Pensions Management Institute.
Education
Cambridge University (1983 UK MA (Cantab) in Law).
Practice Areas
Pensions (non contentious); Pensions - dispute resolution
