Pensions
Clients, legal directories and annual awards confirm the rating; and with fifteen partners (and thirteen ‘leaders in the field’) no other firm has as much legal expertise available. The team has access to a group of two colleagues dedicated solely to legal pensions research.
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We have produced a series of guides to auto-enrolment:
Because of both increasing regulation in the UK, and globalisation of plan sponsors, employers and trustees are looking to provide for UK employees pension arrangements outside the UK. The recent European Pensions Directive, together with case law in the European Court of Justice and useful double taxation agreements, has made overseas pension arrangements not only possible, but very attractive.
If you have a dispute, whether as a trustee, member, asset manager or adviser, it is often important to make sure it does not become a news story, and is managed so as to contain costs - and even keep the other side on friendly terms.
If you need to keep track of legislation, case law, practice or trusteeship issues, it is helpful to attend a Pinsent Masons Pensions Event, perhaps as part of continual education or just because you have an issue that is dealt with by one of our sessions.
Financial institutions, such as insurance companies, investment trusts, asset managers, banks and others are expanding their pension products, including SIPPs, SASSs, GPPPs and QROPS, in response to the decline in the provision of salary-related company-sponsored arrangements.
Trustees and asset managers have interests which are different sides of the same coin but with an equal interest in managing the complexities of modern investing.
If you have an issue relating to the Pensions Regulator or Pension Protection Fund (PPF) we can help.
Pensions is hardly ever out of the news – but for journalists finding expert and balanced comment is not always straightforward.
Time was when pensions mostly meant occupational pensions.
Public sector pensions advice is specialist work, and the Pinsent Masons Pensions Law team has one of the most experienced groups in the country.
There is no shortage of publications to read on pensions; there are about 48,000 pages of regulations and rules on pensions law alone in the UK.
If you are a pension fund trustee, you face challenging times; you need to protect the interests of members, whilst avoiding as far as possible being confrontational with the sponsor, and at the same time avoiding personal liability. The legal obligations have been markedly increased in recent years, and the penalties for breach are (in theory at least) very substantial.
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Pension issues can now make or break a deal. The impact of the anti-avoidance moral hazard laws in regulating defined benefit pension schemes has been dramatic. Your Pinsent Masons Pensions Law team advises employers of all sizes and backgrounds and can: