Linklaters LLP

Linklaters LLP has a full-service pensions team that works on some of the most complex and market-leading matters. The team is experienced on all aspects of pensions for the fund’s trustees, corporates, insurance companies, and consolidation vehicles in liability management, funding, end-game planning, investment, corporate reorganisations, transactions, and insolvency, and DC schemes and fund consolidations. Led by ‘one of the best pensions lawyers’, Claire Petheram is experienced in advising trustees, corporates, and financial institutions in liability management, transferring DC assets, funding DB schemes, investment issues, takeovers, and more. Rosalind Knowles, a specialist in benefit change programmes, valuation negotiations, and funding, buyouts, and governance issues, and Sarah Parkin, an expert in de-risking, are highly-regarded members of the team. Lorna Mitchinson is a rising figure with experience in M&A, funding negotiations, de-risking, and investigations concerning the Pensions Regulator.