Amie Bain
Partner
Amie advises trustees and employers on pensions law, specialising in energy and financial services. She is part of the pensions risk transfer team, guiding buy-in transactions and managing buy-out and wind-up processes to minimise residual legal risk.
Amie 's experience
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Advised TotalEnergies E&P UK Limited on the proposed sale of its West of Shetland interests, including stakes in the Laggan, Tormore, Edradour and Glenlivet fields, the Glendronach discovery, the Shetland Gas Plant, 33rd round licences and 40% of Shetland Land Lease Limited. The work included corporate tax advice. Completion awaits various regulatory and third party approvals.
- United Kingdom
- Oil & Gas
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Advised the trustee of a pension scheme on a c.£530m buy-in with Just.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised the trustees of the KION Group Pension Schemes on a £250m full buy-in with Canada Life. This five scheme buy-in project was complex and highly unusual as it was managed as a single transaction.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised a leading European kitchen manufacturer on the transfer of its defined contribution pension scheme to the Scottish Widows Master Trust.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised the trustee of a c.£4bn pension scheme in the energy sector on a comprehensive modernisation and rewrite of the scheme booklets working alongside the scheme’s specialist communications advisers.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised the trustees of a small estate pension scheme on a c.£2m buy-in with Just.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised the trustees of the Walkers Shortbread Pension Scheme on a £34m full buy-in with L&G using L&G’s small schemes Flow proposition.
- £34m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised on a de-sectionalisation and bulk transfer of part of a global plc’s DB pension scheme liabilities to another group pension scheme using a framework agreement, securing appropriate trustee protection through funding commitments and sponsor indemnities.
- £250m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised the trustees of a leading UK manufacturer on the implications of a complex restructuring of the sponsor’s business, including negotiating the reallocation of pension liabilities within the group.
- £70m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised a DC scheme with a DB underpin on structuring a de-risking project to facilitate a full buy-out of the DB underpin liabilities and transfer of the DC liabilities to a master trust.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
Credentials
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2023Joined Pinsent Masons
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2011Qualified - Scotland
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2009Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP - Legal Director
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2009Glasgow Graduate School of Law - Diploma in Legal Practice
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2008University of Glasgow - LLB (Hons)
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