Osborne Clarke LLP
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Osborne Clarke LLP
Osborne Clarke LLP‘s pensions team offers clients advice on a wide-variety of non-contentious matters, including GMP rectification and equalisation matters, benefit specification reviews, scheme closures, and pension-related issues in corporate restructurings and insolvencies. Bristol-based Jonathan Hazlett leads the team, and is complimented by clients for his provision of ’expert advice'. He is assisted by the ‘great’ Tobias Hole, alongside Claire Rankin, Thames Valley-based Chris Netiatis, and legal director Lee Colgate. Carol Dick notably joined from PwC LLP in October 2022.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The team provides rock solid support to us in respect of a highly complex and high profile scheme - they know the market landscape very well and know our scheme, its origins and history intimately, better than anyone else.’
‘Jonathan Hazlett and Tobias Hole are just great. They embody the qualities I have identified for the team and work really well together, offering us a seamless service. Jonathan and Tobias leave us feeling very well-supported - they both have a good antenna for when they need to lead a discussion and when they need to let us lead internally.’
‘Jonathan Hazlett provides expert advice in an easily understandable way.'
- 'Joe Webster is a joy to work with. He provides a technically excellent service in a ready user-friendly way. He is an exception in a private legal practice in that he provides the perfect in-house lawyer service; law that can be easily used and applied, not an academic treatise requiring cold towels round the head to be read in a darkened room.’
Key clients
- Pension Protection Fund
- Trustee of the T&N Retirement Benefits Scheme
- Trustee of the Canon Retirement Benefit Scheme for the United Kingdom
- Trustee of the Grundfos Pumps Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement and Death Benefit Scheme
- Trustee of the YMCA Pension and Assurance Plan
- Trustee of the Senior plc Pension Plan
- Trustee of the Federated Pension Scheme for Imperial College
- Trustee of the UCL (Former Medical Schools) Pension Scheme
Work highlights
- Appointed to provide specialist and expert full legal services directly to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) legal panel.
- Appointed to advise 2020 Trustee Services Limited as the sole trustee of the Trustee of the T&N Retirement Benefits Scheme.
- Advised the trustees of the Canon Retirement Benefit Scheme for the United Kingdom in relation to a staged transfer out of defined contribution benefits.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jonathan Hazlett