Working with the full range of pensions clients, including employers, trustees, insurers, lenders, and service providers, Norton Rose Fulbright is experienced in corporate advisory work, transactions, trustee and employer advisory matters, product development, and investment work. Recently, the team has focused on growing its sector expertise in consumer markets, energy, infrastructure and resources, financial institutions, life sciences, and technology in buy-ins and consolidation, TPR enforcement powers, restructuring, and risk transfer. Lesley Browning, whose capabilities span pensions regulatory and governance matters, corporate transactions, scheme mergers, restructuring, buy-ins and buy-outs, and investment issues, leads the team.
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Testimonials
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- ‘High-end pensions team covering all aspects of non-contentious work with scrupulous attention to detail whilst maintaining a commercial approach.’
- ‘Experienced and knowledgeable team of pensions lawyers, capable of giving sensible and practical advice.’
- ‘They are a very strong team - Lesley Browning has experience second to none; Shane O'Reilly is commercial and pragmatic with a focussed approach to complex issues; and Suzie Kemp has a very strong client focus in ensuring that input from multiple teams aligns with client needs.’
- ‘Strong ability to provide clear and coherent the advice, professional, responsive, dynamic law firm.'
- ‘Lesley Browning is a pensions titan who has the full package in terms of all aspects of contentious and non-contentious work. Very bright, incredibly knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with.’
- ‘Extremely knowledgeable and approachable. They always respond in a timely manner in a clear and consistent manner.'
Key clients
- Abellio Transport Holdings B.V. Abellio Transport Holdings Ltd AB Stena Finans ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Accolade Wines Ltd Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. AES Corporation AIG Life Limited Aquiline Capital Partners LP Arla Foods Amba Arthur J Gallagher Bank of America Barclays Bank plc Bombardier Inc. The Boston Consulting Group Limited BMO Financial Group (operating name for Bank of Montreal) Carnival plc Calsberg A/S Carlsberg UK Limited Carrier Pension Trustee Limited Cobalt Energy Limited Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation Colgate-Palmolive (UK) Limited Conning Holdings Limited Corebridge Financial Countryside Partnerships Holdings plc Crest Nicholson plc Dalriada Trustees Limited DHL International (Ireland) Ltd Direct Line Group Energizer Brands LLC ERGO Versicherung AG Financial Conduct Authority Financial Services Compensation Scheme FTI Consulting LLP Garda World Security Corporation GFG Alliance Ltd HSBC UK Bank plc Hydro Aluminium Deeside Ltd Hydro Aluminium UK Limited Hydro Building Systems UK Ltd Hyperion Insurance Group Limited IMI plc Independent Governance Group Infropro Diginal Holding (UK) Limited ING Bank NV Invensys Pension Trustee Limited Kaefer Limited Kemble Water Holdings Limited Kerry Group Plc Liberty Merchant Bar Plc Liberty Pressing Solutions (Coventry) Ltd Lyondellbasell Industries Holdings B.V. Lyondell Chemical Europe Inc. McLaren Technology Group Limited Marsh McLennan Companies, Inc. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC MS Amlin plc Munich Re National House Building Council Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd Norsk Hydro ASA Northern Marine Management Ltd Northern Trust Omnilife Insurance Company Oxford Instruments Plc P&O Ferries Division Holdings Limited Post Office Limited QBE Management Services Limited Renishaw plc Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Ltd RWE AG Sandvik AB Simec Lochaber Hydropower 2 Limited SNC Lavalin Société Générale SA. Starling Bank Stena AB (publ) Stena Drilling Limited Stena Line Limited Thames Water Holdings Limited Trustee of the IPT Group Pension Plan Trustee of the Oxford Instruments Pension Scheme Trustee of the Steel Construction Institute Pension Scheme Trustees of the Bayerische Landesbank Retirement and Death Benefits Plan Trustees of the BBVA London Pension Plan Trustees of the Crown Agents Superannuation Scheme Trustees of the Dover Harbour Board Pension and Life Assurance Scheme (1973) Trustees of the J.J. Churchill Ltd Executive Pension Plan Trustees of the Marylebone Cricket Club Pension and Assurance Scheme Trustees of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi Pension and Life Assurance Scheme Trustees of the Royal Lancaster Hotel Retirement Benefits Plan Trustees of the SITA Defined Benefit Pension Scheme Trustees of the Thomson Pension Fund Trustees of the West of England Ship Owners Insurance Services Ltd Retirement Benefits Scheme USAA SA V. Ships UK Ltd Vitality Life Limited Vroon Offshore UK Limited WealthTek LLP Wyelands Capital Limited
Lawyers
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Practice head
Lesley Browning
Other key lawyers
Suzie Kemp; Shane O'Reilly