Matthew de Ferrars
Partner
Matthew leads our specialist pensions risk transfer team, advising trustees, sponsors, and insurers on complex transactions. He’s a trusted adviser to ongoing schemes, guiding trustees through the full journey from buy-in to buy-out with deep industry experience of every stage.
Matthew's experience
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Advising the trustees of the KION Group Pension Schemes on the £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.
- £250m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising a FTSE 100 company on a sponsor-driven de-risking strategy for a £1bn+ scheme. This culminated in a successful buy-in of all of its pension liabilities using a framework agreement and the sale of the scheme’s illiquid assets so that the scheme could take advantage of a favourable pricing opportunity.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising Just on the £42m buy-in of the Scottish Milk Limited Retirement Benefits Plan. The buy-in, which secured retirement benefits for all 452 members of the scheme, included a deferred premium element to enable the transaction to take place.
- £42m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising the trustees of a £1 billion household name pension scheme on the £228 million partial buy-in of its liabilities with Just Retirement Limited under a framework agreement.
- £228m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising the trustees of the Westminster Abbey Pension Scheme on the £25 million full-scheme buy-in with PIC.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising trustees on two complex winding-up projects for £300m pension schemes. One involved obtaining regulatory approval for a refund of surplus to the employer. We guided the trustees through to liability discharge in circumstances of residual risks and member complaints, securing appropriate trustee protection through insurance and sponsor indemnities
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising PIC on the £65 million buy-in of the Chemring Group Staff Pension Scheme.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised Scottish Widows on a £320 million buy-in with the trustee of the De La Rue pension scheme.
- £320m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising trustees on an innovative buy-out project to efficiently utilise surplus by merging a pension scheme with a surplus and a deficit, sharing the surplus between sponsor and members.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising Pensions Insurance Corporation on the negotiation of a series of complex, multi-scheme, multi-section bulk annuity transactions with defined benefit pension schemes, including the Gates Corporation’s Tomkins 2008 Pension Scheme.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
Credentials
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2010Made Partner Pinsent Masons
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2000Qualified - England and Wales
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1998Joined Pinsent Masons
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1998London Guildhall University – LPC
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1997London Guildhall University – Law Conversion Course
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1996Bristol University – BA (Hons)
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