Led by John Gordon, a practitioner with over twenty years of experience in advising private and public UK and multinational employers and trustees, Ashurst‘s pensions team often advises on some of the most complex DB and DC pension schemes. Working on a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters, the group works closely with the restructuring team for pensions-related work, advises corporates, lenders, and trustees in refinancing matters, and calls on its sector-expertise in the rail industry to advise rail companies.
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Key clients
- Basalt Infrastructure Partners III GP Limited
- Carr's Group PLC
- Renewi plc
- Lendlease Europe Holdings Limited
- SIG plc
- Clement Clarke Pension Trustees Limited
- Selfridges & Co
- The Legal Education Foundation
- Docklands Light Railway Limited
- The Official Receiver acting as Liquidator of Thomas Cook Group plc (in Liquidation) and of various subsidiaries in liquidation
- Great British Nuclear
- WM Morrison Supermarkets Limited
Work highlights
Advised Renewi plc on its £707m takeover by Earth Bidco N.V., a company controlled by Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 7 and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.
Advise TfL (Transport for London) and its subsidiary DLRL on the pensions aspects of the refranchising of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR).
Advised Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited, on a broad range of pension issues to manage legal issues in relation to the Group's defined benefit pension arrangements and the funding structures which support them.
Practice head
John Gordon