Julie Currie > Carey Olsen > St Helier, Jersey > Lawyer Profile
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47 ESPLANADE
ST HELIER
JE1 0BD
Jersey
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Julie Currie
Work Department
Employment, Pensions and Incentives
Position
Julie Currie is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen and specialises in pensions. She advises local and international trustee clients on scheme governance, administration and regulatory issues, in addition to project work including transfers, scheme restructures, risk transfers (i.e. buy-ins and buy-outs) and benefit change exercises. Julie advises pension providers and employer clients on their obligations in respect of existing schemes, on the establishment of new pension schemes, the amendment of schemes and on scheme-specific projects including liability management exercises. Julie has extensive experience advising in respect of defined benefit, defined contribution and master trust schemes.
Julie is the firm’s first pan-Channel Island lawyer and divides her working week between the firm’s Jersey and Guernsey offices.
Career
Julie studied Law at the University of Glasgow and obtained her Diploma in Legal Practice from the Glasgow Graduate School of Law in 2007. Julie completed her training contract at a leading national law firm in the UK and chose to specialise in pensions in 2009. Julie continued to work within the firm’s first-rate pensions practice until 2018 when she joined Carey Olsen. Julie is a member of the Law Society of Scotland.
Lawyer Rankings
Jersey > Employment
Carey Olsen‘s Channel Island employment practice is well-placed to advise both onshore and offshore employers and trust managers on matters concerning pension schemes, as well as assisting with the structuring of large-scale pension plans and associated regulatory matters. The team is also able to advise on exits of senior employees and employee incentive schemes, as well as handling discrimination claims. Huw Thomas, who was made partner in January 2023 and focuses on mediation, leads the team alongside pensions specialist Alexa Saunders, who also heads up the firm’s trusts and private wealth team. Counsel Julie Currie is an experienced pensions practitioner, advising on transfers, scheme restructures, risk transfers and benefit changes. Senior associate Tarina Le Boutillier is noted for her work on immigration, in addition to contentious and non-contentious employment work.
Lawyer Rankings
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- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution
- Employment
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- Private client, trusts and tax
- Dispute resolution > Regulatory and white-collar crime