Drawing on the strength of the wider national group, Addleshaw Goddard‘s pensions practice advises blue-chip corporates and trustees boards, who turn to the firm for its wide-ranging offering, including its specialist bulk annuities team, strong M&A pensions transactional offering, specialist SIPP, SSAS, and pensions products team, and pensions investment expertise. Catherine McAllister, experienced in valuation discussions, corporate reorganisations, and buy-ins, and Rachel Uttley, who leads the bulk annuity practice, co-head the team.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Strong knowledge and a practical approach - good people to work with.’
- ‘Addleshaws provide us with a high level of service and display professional standards which would be expected of a high-quality law firm.'
- ‘Catherine McAllister is consistently professional and provides practical advice in all areas including scheme mergers, closure to accrual and deed interpretation.'
- 'Catherine McAllister has a willingness to work with Trustees with different experience levels and offers practical solutions on all subjects.'
- ‘Good team with real specialist knowledge and great market overview.’
- ‘Jade Murray is an excellent lawyer, thoughtful and firm but always willing to explore novel solutions.'
- 'Jade Murray is someone whose views carry real influence in the industry.'
Key clients
- Anglian Water
- Artelia
- Atalian Servest Limited
- Barclays Bank Plc
- Boortmalt UK Limited
- British Airways
- Britvic Plc
- Trustees of the CADCentre Limited Pension Scheme
- Trustee of the Cambridge University Press Contributory Pension Fund
- Trustee of the Credit Agricole CIB Legacy Pension Scheme
- Daily Mail & General Trust Plc
- De Beers Plc
- Trustees of the Delbanco Meyer & Company Retirement Benefits Scheme
- FNZ Group
- Hachette UK Limited
- Hoare Lea LLP
- JCB Finance Limited
- McCormick (UK) Limited
- Michelin Plc
- Nexgen Holdings 1 Limited
Work highlights
Advise Pensions Insurance Corporation on the pensions, finance and reinsurance issues arising from its £1.2bn buy-intransaction with the Total UK Pension Scheme.
Advise the sponsoring employer of the Homestyle 2008 Pension Scheme (originally the scheme of the Blue Group) on the successful buy-out of its pension scheme which completed in January 2025 after completing a buy-in contract with Aviva in 2020.
Long-term pension advisers to the Trustee of the Credit Agricole CIB Legacy Pension Scheme, a complex scheme formed from the merger of 8 schemes over a period spanning 1988 to 2012.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Catherine McAllister; Rachel Uttley
Other key lawyers
Jade Murray; Judith Donnelly; James Pickering; Paul Feathers