Osborne Clarke LLP‘s wide-ranging pension practice handles high-profile corporate failures, risk settlement and liability management for defined pension schemes, as well as a good deal of work for public sector clients, with the firm advising a number of individual LGPS funds. The team is chaired by Jonathan Hazlett, a Pension Protection Fund specialist, while his colleague Paul Matthews has particular expertise in utilities sector pensions work. Brent Wright is especially noted for his transactional capabilities. Other key names within the practice include Claire Rankin, who specialises in employment-related pensions matters, and Tobias Hole, who is well-versed in DB liability management and DB risk settlement mandates. All named lawyers are based in Bristol.

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Key clients

Pension Protection Fund
Trustee of the T & N Retirement Benefits Scheme (1989)
Trustees of the Hammerson Group Management Limited Pension and Life Assurance Scheme
Trustees of the YMCA Pension and Assurance Plan
Trustees of the Chubb Safes Pension Plan
Ameresco Limited
Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund
Bank of Ireland UK Pension Fund
Trustee of the Lincoln Staff Benefits Plan
Trustee of the Eastman Machine Company Limited Superannuation Scheme
Senior plc Pension Plan
Western Provident Association Pension Scheme

Work highlights

One of six firms providing specialist and expert full legal services directly to the Pension Protection Fund.
Appointed to advise 2020 Trustee Services Limited as the sole trustee of the T&N Retirement Benefits Scheme.
Advising the trustees of the Hammerson Group Management Limited Pension and Life Assurance Scheme on the implementation of a £100 million buy-in with Just Retirement.