The pensions practice at Mills & Reeve LLP is led from Birmingham by Clare Grice, but the firm’s Norwich office is a significant hub of expertise thanks to experienced consultant and pensions specialist Laura Sayer, who provides ‘good advice and in a direct fashion’. As well as handling corporate advisory pensions matters, the practice advises on a vast range of matters for trustees and corporates concerning pension schemes in the public sector.
Testimonials
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‘Mills & Reeve continue to provide excellent advice, support and guidance on a range issues that include a difficult interface with corporate head office in Japan and a buy out project that is proving unusually complex.’
‘Principal contact in the past year has been Laura Sayer. Laura has been brilliant in providing guidance and support to me on a range of issues I would otherwise have been really struggling with.’
‘Depth of experience.’
‘Laura Sayer provides good advice and in a direct fashion.’
Key clients
- The Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Pension and Assurance Scheme
- Trustees of the DUCO Limited Pension Scheme
- The Trustee of the RG Carter Limited Pension Fund
- Trustees of the Duffield Pension Scheme
- Trustees of the Lord Wandsworth College Pension Scheme
- Trustees of the J&H Bunn Limited Pension Plan
- Trustees of the Lovewell Blake Pension Fund
- Trustee of the University of East Anglia Staff Superannuation Fund
- Trustee of the Cambridge Colleges Federated Pension Scheme
- Trustee of the Cambridge University Assistants’ Contributory Pension Scheme
Work highlights
- Advised the Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Pension and Assurance Scheme on the establishment of an escrow account with the aim of avoiding a trapped surplus within the Scheme.
- Advised the Trustee of the RG Carter Limited Pension Fund on the implementation of GMP equalisation and its approach to dealing with complexities relating to past transfers out of the Fund and historic annuities.
- Advised a consortium of NHS employers in the East Anglian region on the NHS Regulations introduced in 2023 to enable certain members of the NHS Pension Scheme to take partial retirement. The aim of the new partial retirement flexibilities is to assist NHS employers to address the pressures of post covid waiting lists and encouraging experienced staff to stay within the NHS to assist with that aim.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Clare Grice