The pensions team at Stevens & Bolton LLP, led by Andy Williams, advises on a range of contentious and non-contentious matters, with specific industry expertise in the manufacturing, energy, professional services, and private client sectors. Key types of work include corporate support, employer and trustee advice, scheme governance and funding, and transactional support regarding complex pension arrangements. Williams is noted for his particular expertise advising on reorganisations, TUPE transfers and has experience in the Employment Tribunal and High Court on a range of contentious matters. James Lister brings valuable experience as a trusts litigator. The practice is based in Guildford.
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Key clients
- Shareholders of Accuro Group Holdings Ltd
- The Trustees of the Buchanan & Curwen Group Senior Staff Pension Scheme
- Unum
- Ylem Energy
Work highlights
- Advising a travel and leisure brand on the progression towards the winding up of its final salary/defined benefit pension scheme on a solvent basis.
- Advising an insurance business on its adoption of a sole corporate professional trustee model for its final salary/defined benefit pension scheme.
- Advising a European energy company on the UK aspects of its multijurisdictional acquisition of a large multinational petroleum and gas distribution business, involving a hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution pension scheme.
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Andy Williams