With strengths in transactional, restructuring, and regulatory pensions work, the team at Ashurst Perkins Coie advises on DB and DC pension schemes. Led by John Gordon, the practice is highly capable of handling corporate mandates, risk management projects, and regulatory matters, including advising on solutions designed to support scheme resilience. The department works alongside the firm’s wider restructuring team to help clients navigate takeovers, refinancings, and industry-specific pensions issues.
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- I have worked with John Gordon on many projects over many years. He combines strong technical expertise with commercial acumen and sensible pragmatism.
Key clients
- The Coca-Cola Company
- ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
- Renewi plc
- Lendlease Europe Holdings Ltd
- Ricardo plc
- Clement Clarke Pension Trustees Ltd
- Oxford Instruments plc
- The Legal Education Foundation
- Docklands Light Railway Ltd
- Carr's Group plc
- WM Morrison Supermarkets Ltd
Work highlights
Advised Renewi plc on its £707m takeover by Macquarie and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.
Advised TFL and its subsidiary DLRL on the pensions aspects of the refranchising of the Docklands Light Railway.
Advised Morrison Supermarkets Ltd on legal issues in relation to the Group's defined benefit pension arrangements and the funding structures which support them.
Practice head
John Gordon