Michael M Jones > gunnercooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

gunnercooke LLP
1 CORNHILL
LONDON
EC3V 3ND
England

Work Department

Pensions

Position

Partner

Career

Michael has over 20 years’ expertise in advising companies, trustees and individuals on all legal aspects of employer-sponsored occupational and personal pension schemes. Michael has particular market expertise in advising charities and not for profit entities and in public sector outsourcing.  The scope of his advice includes charity law consequences for pension scheme liabilities, amending and winding up schemes, scheme interpretation issues, scheme mergers, sales and acquisition issues, buy-ins and buy-outs, surplus and deficit issues, complaints to the Pensions Ombudsman and scheme funding discussions.  He also advises private individuals in respect to transfers, fixed protection issues and overpayment issues.  He regularly contributes to industry publications and has previously spoken at a number of conferences on pensions matters.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)

gunnercooke LLP‘s practice is praised by clients for its ‘wealth of experience‘, ‘excellent client service‘, and ‘technical pensions expertise’. The practice is able to act as trustee to numerous pension schemes with the firm’s professional trustee company, gcTrustees. Notable names within the team include Adam Bushby for his risk transfer specialism, Helen Miles for her expertise in issues of compliance and risk settlement matters, and Parminder Latimer for her over three decades of experience in the industry. Michael M Jones joined the team in May 2022 from Charles Russell Speechlys LLP.