Addleshaw Goddard

Pensions.

Partner specialising in all aspects of pensions advisory and transactional work, advising trustees and sponsoring employer (companies and LLPs). Advisory experience includes interpretation, consolidations, establishing schemes and new benefit sections, scheme mergers and sectionalisation, and investment documentation, as well as day to day issues including compliance in particular with the Finance Act, Pensions Act and date protection. Transactional experience includes corporate reorganisations, LLP conversions and share sales including advising on negotiations with trustees over funding implications and seeking Pensions Regulator clearance.

Trained McGrigor Donald; qualified Scotland 1994, England and Wales 1996; in-house lawyer Standard Life 1994-95; associate, then senior associate Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1996-2007; partner Addleshaw Goddard 2007.

Association of Pension Lawyers; Chair of the Legal and Parliamentary Committee.

Bronksome Hall school, Toronto; McGill University (1987 BEng); University of Edinburgh (1992 LLB).

Family, cinema, walking.