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.'
- 'Catherine McAllister is a font of knowledge. She is always able to identify the key points and will work hard to resolve them.’
- 'Personable, approachable, knowledgeable people who are focused on proportionate advice and finding solutions for their clients.'
- 'The firm are very competitive.'
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
Leading partners
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Practice head
Catherine McAllister; Rachel Uttley
Other key lawyers
Jade Murray; Judith Donnelly; James Pickering; Paul Feathers