The Firm also advises on how to make pensions accessible and understandable for everyone. We provide independent and impartial advise and guidance about legal and technical issues relating to pensions to our clients. We help with all pension matters covering workplace, personal as well as umbrella and also statutory schemes.
Our services include advising industry participants on various aspects of fund governance and administration; and employers, including public sector employers, on a range of issues relating to their participation in pension funds. Our offering extends to providing training programs to meet specific client requirements.
We pride ourselves on our independence. We have no exclusive relationship with any particular industry participants and regularly act for different stakeholders including employers, trustees, administrators, consultants, regulators and service providers. This means we enjoy established relationships throughout the retirement fund industry and have access to top specialist counsel.
The firm assists clients in establishing unit trust structures, drafting trust deeds and related contracts, registration of unit trusts with the regulator and advises on reporting requirements.
Our clients include Pension Schemes and service providers for Schemes such as Administrators and Founders of Retirement Benefit schemes.
The Firm has advised various Pension Schemes, Administrators and Liquidators of the Schemes on various aspects of the law under the Retirement Benefits Act. These include advise on conversion of schemes from Defined Benefits to Defined Contribution; how to treat any deficits; the Statutory Remedial Plans; Amended Trust Deeds , how to conduct meetings amongst other corporate governance matters.
