Dentons‘ team is experienced in advising employers and sponsors across the gamut of pensions matters, covering DB and DC schemes, life assurance arrangements, healthcare trusts, restructurings, and public sector schemes. Able to call upon its sizeable global network, the team often works cross-border on the pensions aspects of global corporate transactions. Eleanor Hart, a specialist in working with trustees and employers, heads up the London office. Other key team members include veteran pensions practitioner and ESG expert, Carolyn Saunders.
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‘Knowledgeable, experienced, and enjoyable to work with. Great handover and involvement of specialist colleagues as needed, proactively.'
‘Eleanor Hart has been such a pleasure to work with - developing a true partnership.’
‘The Dentons pensions team is relatively small but punches above its weight. Eleanor Hart has a wealth of experience in restructuring and similar issues.'
‘Eleanor Hart has a wealth of experience and is accomplished in a range of complex restructuring, financing, and related issues of crucial importance to pension schemes.'
- 'Carolyn Saunders is a highly experienced and able technical pensions lawyer - she is a delight to work with, bringing a no-nonsense sense of fun and practical perspective to any project.’
- 'Eleanor is astute, imaginative and engaged; and a pleasure to work with on any transaction.'
- 'Carloyn Saunders has seen it all and done it all and knows everything about pensions. She has a real gravitas and credibility in the industry, commanding the respect of the lawyers on the other side.'
Key clients
- The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- The Edrington Group Limited
- Trustees of the Delta Air Lines UK Staff Pension Scheme
- Pirelli & C. S.p.A.
- Purepay Retail Limited
- OCS-UK Limited
- Merchant Investors Staff Pension Scheme
- Diamond Power Speciality Limited
- Sateba UK Limited
- SC Johnson
- W L Gore & Associates
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Ross Trustees Services Limited
- Group 1 Automotive
- The Law Debenture Pension Trust Corporation plc
Work highlights
Advising the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and Ofgem on its proposals to create a Future System Operator (FSO) with responsibilities for both electricity and gas systems to achieve net-zero and maintain energy security while minimising costs for consumers.
Advising a major pensions client on a number of business-critical projects relating to the sale of their mortgage servicing business and to changes in pensions provision for their many thousands of employees.
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Eleanor Hart
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