Pensions
McGrigors' Pensions team advises clients in the UK and abroad on a full range of UK pensions issues. The team is focused on its clients' goals - offering the highest standard of advice from a commercial perspective.
The team advises employers, trustees and members on all legal matters relating to pension schemes.
Specific areas of work handled include:
- the establishment of new schemes
- amalgamation of pension schemes
- altering benefit structures of defined benefit schemes
- closing defined benefit schemes to future accrual
- amending and redocumenting pension schemes
- acting as professional trustees
- advising trustees/employers on contentious issues
- negotiating terms of pensions warranties and indemnities
- public/private transfers, including replication of public sector benefits
- section 75 debt issues, particularly on multi-employer schemes
- negotiating transfer arrangements on purchase and sale of businesses
- winding up of pension schemes
- dispute resolution through the Ombudsman and the courts
- advising on "failed equalisation" issues