Wedlake Bell LLP‘s pension practice advises employers, trustees, intermediaries, and insurers on a range of pension matters, from tax-efficient employee incentive arrangements, end-game planning, and liability management to corporate transaction support, compliance, and private client issues. The team regularly acts for a range of household names, often advising on cross-jurisdictional matters. Justin McGilloway, who leads the team, has over twenty years of experience acting for employers, trustees, pension providers, and individuals on a host of pensions matters. Paul Ashcroft is also recommended.
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Key clients
- Trustees of the Natixis Pension Scheme
- Jotun Paints (Europe) Limited Pension Scheme (Trustees of the Scheme)
- Capital Radio Pension and Assurance Scheme (Trustees of the Scheme)
- The Carlton Tower Pension Scheme (Trustees of the Scheme)
- Trad Scaffolding Limited
- Mission Aviation Fellowship Europe Pension Scheme (Trustees of the Scheme)
- Concentrix – The Stream International Pensions Scheme (Trustees of the Scheme)
- National Centre for Social Research (Trustees of the Scheme)
- Scandinavian Airlines Pension and Assurance Scheme
- Steamship Insurance Management Services LimitedPension Scheme
- Trane UK Limited Retirement Benefits Plan
- SITA Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
Work highlights
Advised the pension trustees of a scheme associated with a leading global corporate and investment bank on the de-risking of its UK defined benefit pension scheme, which culminated in the buy-in of all pensioner and deferred member's benefits with a leading insurer.
Advised the pension trustees of a scheme associated with the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology on a major benefit rectification exercise stretching back 35 years.
Advised the trustees of the Capital Radio Pension Scheme on de-risking of its UK defined benefit scheme, which culminated in the buy-in of all pensioner and deferred member's benefits with Pension Insurance Corporation.
Practice head
Justin McGilloway
Other key lawyers
Paul Ashcroft