DLA Piper‘s ’very strong, commercially minded and solution-focused’ team has a particular focus on manufacturing and financial services clients alongside strong capabilities and experience advising a diverse client base of pension scheme trustees, corporates, and pension providers. Recent work has included buy-ins, corporate restructurings, and providing advice to trustees on GMP equalisation. Andrew McIlhinney leads the team that undertakes significant complex multijurisdictional work. David Young is a pensions litigation specialist, and Simon Evans and Craig Looker are also key names of note.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘A very strong, commercially minded, solutions-focused team.'
‘Craig Looker is practical and responsive.’
Key clients
- Trustee of the Yorkshire Building Society
- Trustee of Urenco UK Pension Scheme
Work highlights
- Advising the Trustees of Westinghouse Electric (UK) Pension Plan on the de-sectionalisation of the DB Pension Scheme.
- Advising the trustees of the Andrew Weir Pension Scheme on the full buy-in of all DB scheme liabilities with Aviva.