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Stephenson Harwood Offices

Stephenson Harwood
1 FINSBURY CIRCUS
LONDON
EC2M 7SH
England
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Mr Stephen Richards

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Work Department

Employment, pensions, private wealth, immigration, contentious trusts and corporate tax

Position

A big scheme specialist, Stephen advises employers, trustees, and master trusts on all types of pensions issues. He has a commercial style on strategic issues and brings a responsive approach on day to day matters. With the ability to present complex ideas in a simple way, Stephen has helped a variety of clients with tricky pensions issues, from the trustees of global banks to UK manufacturers.

Stephen joined Stephenson Harwood from Allen and Overy to complement our strong and growing pensions team. As a rising star in pensions law, Stephen further enhances the reputation of the firm’s pension practice.

He is an expert on pensions in the banking sector, large pension schemes, Pensions Regulator issues and master trusts. Stephen has experience on major strategic projects including advising on the acquisition of a major master trust provider and the largest company contribution made to a pension scheme to date. Stephen is also a trustee so he understands what trustees need from their advisers. Stephen established the Pensions Innovation Café, and likes to present advice in a modern, user friendly way.

Stephen‘s recent experience includes advising on multiple transfers to DC master trusts and the trustees of several of the UK’s major pension schemes on all day to day legal issues. He also gave strategic advice on major Pensions Regulatory issues for a FTSE 100 company as well as to a global telecoms company on world-wide pensions issues.

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London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)

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Stephen Richards – Stephenson Harwood

Stephenson Harwood advises on non-contentious pensions matters, acting for large household name clients on offshore, private and non-standard pension schemes. The team is led by Philip Goodchild, who advises a number of employers and trustees on high-value schemes; Stephen Richards is also a key name in the high-value pension scheme space. Naeem Noor has a notable advisory practice, which ranges from scheme closures to future accrual and portfolio diversification issues, and also handles the pensions elements of corporate transactions.

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