PENSIONS 6PQE to Counsel - great Partner track

Noble Legal Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A top legal firm in the UK is seeking an ambitious individual to join their market-leading pensions team. The role involves advising sponsors and trustees on various aspects of pension arrangements, including establishment, mergers, and compliance. Candidates should have strong commercial awareness and the ambition to progress to partnership. The firm values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Intelligent and ambitious individual looking to advance.
• Strong commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Advise sponsors and trustees on pension arrangements.
• Handle establishment, mergers, and compliance issues.
• Guide on pension product development.
• Manage de-risking and winding up of schemes.

Job description

Our client's market-leading pensions team acts for sponsors, trustees, and other stakeholders in all aspects of pension arrangements, including establishment, mergers, de-risking, winding up, and ongoing compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements.

The group has the skills, knowledge, and technical expertise to advise companies, trustees, and other stakeholders on their duties, responsibilities, and obligations related to pension arrangements. They also advise leading insurance companies on pension product development. Additionally, the team works with overseas parent companies to advise on their UK subsidiaries' pension arrangements.

The pensions group handles various aspects of pension arrangements, including:

• The establishment, revision, amalgamation, and winding up of schemes
• Advice on trustees' powers, duties, and statutory obligations
• Investment management agreements and common investment funds
• De-risking of defined benefit pension schemes
• Acquisition and disposal of companies and assets
• Protection against predators
• Employment contracts and dismissals
• Extraction of surplus
• Pension scheme deficits
• Recovery of misappropriated scheme assets
• Insurance products: personal pension plans and offshore arrangements
• Advice to independent trustees
• Contentious pension issues, including rectification claims, recovery of overpayments, and claims involving professional advisers

The team is seeking an intelligent, commercial, and ambitious individual looking to advance to Partnership.

For a confidential chat, please call (0)20 7691 2888 and ask for one of our dedicated consultants.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, fostering a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging.