Blake Morgan LLP is active for both public and private sector clients on a range of pension work, with strength in contentious and non-contentious mandates. The department acts for trustees and employers, and has particular strength in the education sector. Ron Burgess leads the team, and works between Cardiff and London; Burgess advises on a broad range of pension-related matters, including litigation. Gillian McCue advises trustees and employers on all aspects of pensions work, and has supplementary expertise on incentive arrangements.
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Employment
Position
Ron is Head of Employment, Pensions and Immigration group. He provides advice to trustees, corporate clients, insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders in the pensions industry on a wide range of matters that involve pension schemes.
Ron has wide ranging experience in providing pension-related advice on the implications of corporate restructurings, financing and re-financing, general corporate activities and conduct, insolvencies, mergers, benefit changes, pension scheme redesigns and mergers, pension scheme amendments, closures and winding-up and advice in respect of the Pensions Regulator and Pension Protection Fund.
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- 'Blake Morgan are excellent communicators.' 'I have worked very closely with Gillian McCue and have always found Gillian and her team to be very effective.'
Key clients
- Crick Care Home Limited Shaw Healthcare (Group) Limited Gateshead Council Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Wandsworth Social Care Wales Clwyd Alyn Housing Oaklands MD Limited Wokingham Borough Council Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Michael Weinig (UK) Limited 1990 Pension Scheme Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Personnel Hygiene Services Limited University of Wales Superannuation Scheme Consort Equipment Products Pension Scheme
Work highlights
Advised a charity providing housing and other support on the design and implementation of pensions contributions salary sacrifice.