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Lancaster House
Nunn Mills Road
Northampton
NN1 5GE
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Christopher Nuttall
Work Department
Pensions
Position
Head of Pensions
Career
Christopher’s work involves finding commercially effective solutions to pension problems, drafting scheme documentation and advising on transactions involving pension schemes. He advises employers, trustees and consultants on technical and administrative issues and wider projects like scheme mergers, closures and buy-outs. Christopher also has particular expertise in public sector pensions.
Memberships
Christopher is a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers
Education
After reading English at the University of Oxford, Christopher trained with Harvey Ingram where he worked in their pensions department for over three years after qualifying as a solicitor in 2005. He spent a further three years with Wragge & Co before joining Hewitsons in 2013.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Employment > Pensions
HCR Hewitsons‘ pensions team is known for its ‘good knowledge and ability to find a reliable answer or solution quickly‘. The firm’s dedicated pensions partner is Christopher Nuttall, who works mainly from Cambridge and the firm’s Central England office; Nuttall is praised for ‘explaining problems and solutions with clarity and in a prompt way’. He frequently acts for both employers and trustees of private sector occupational pension schemes throughout the country and across a wide-range of business sectors. The practice also has significant experience in public sector pensions work. Notably, the team recently assisted the Trustee of the Velux Co. Ltd. Retirement Benefits Scheme with an exercise to pension benefits for former employees, to determine if they may be entitled to additional pension benefits.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate