Slaughter and May

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

• ‘Chris Sharpe brings a fresh approach to the team.’

• ‘Focused on giving the best advice and doing the right thing.’

• ‘Incredible technical expertise and experience dealing with pension scheme trustees, which is deployed to assist corporate clients.’

• ‘Adrien Mallevays' technical expertise is unquestionable and his approach to client engagement and clear, commercial and confident application of the law is different to most of his peers.’

• ‘The team at Slaughter and May has a strong client focus and successfully handles the most complex of legal pension issues. The team is collaborative, responsive, and draws on specialist expertise from other areas of Slaughter and May, where needed. Slaughter and May have recognised the increased need for virtual meetings and have invested in gold standard conferencing facilities at their offices.’

• ‘Lead partner Daniel Schaffer goes out of way to listen, communicate and respond. An exceptionally strong individual who seems able to visualise every eventuality to ensure that all angles are covered. All of the individuals at Slaughter and May display strong ethical and professional values and area pleasure to work with.’

• ‘Very capable team with broad experience. Responsive and quick.’

• ‘Easy to strike up a good working relationship with the team.’

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Work highlights

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Daniel Schaffer

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Partner; Dan is a partner in our Pensions Employment & Incentives Group. He joined the firm in 2017. He has over twenty two years of partner experience. His practice is transactional, general advisory and contentious.  He advises employers and trustees.  Dan’s experience includes preparing for a sale process, benefit redesign and covenant and funding solutions.

Charles Cameron

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Partner; Charles advises sponsors, trustees and insurers on corporate pension plans.  His experience ranges from pension plan restructuring driven by M&A or insolvency, to funding and covenant negotiations on change of control, to plan closures. Corporate pension plans combine uniquely the features of reputation sensitivity and financial risk in a legal context which is complex, highly regulated and where the positions of trustees, sponsors, shareholders, employers, unions, regulators and politicians need reconciling.  Charles has a lot of experience in doing so, and in leading or being part of the multi-disciplinary adviser teams necessary, sourced from our financing, insurance, tax and dispute resolution groups.

Leading partners

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Sandeep Maudgil

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Partner; Sandeep advises on a broad variety of pensions and employment-related matters. His practice is transactional, general advisory and contentious. He advises employers and trustees. His experience includes management of issues arising from scheme funding deficits, implementing the transition to more affordable benefit structures and full or partial buy-outs of pension scheme liabilities. He is at the forefront of thinking in developing collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes, acting as the sole external legal adviser on the ground breaking CDC scheme which Royal Mail designed with their unions under the new Pension Schemes Act 2021 regime.