Pensions

Bevan Brittan's pensions team can advise on all aspects of pension law, across the public, private and third sectors.

We have extensive experience of outsourcing projects, including in relation to secondary outsourcing and insourcing, and of the issues hat arise at the end of a project, whether employees are returning to the public sector or transferring to a new service provider.

We have worked across all kinds of pension arrangements – public sector, industry wide schemes (including the Social Housing Pension Scheme) and private sector schemes. We have advised extensively on auto-enrolment compliance.

The team has wide experience of advising on all pensions matters, including acting for private sector employers and trustees, and in dealing with disputes from internal complaints to the Pensions Ombudsman.

Our service is built on clear, focused, strategic support. We don’t sit on the fence. We’ll talk through the options and explain the risks. Then we’ll go one step further by telling you what we would do if we were in your shoes. It’s an approach that our clients tell us adds real value to what we do.

These are some of the ways that we can help:

• Outsourcing exercises affecting all public sector pension schemes, and in particular the pension consequences of TUPE transfer exercises
• Ongoing advice to trustees and employers of private sector pension schemes
• Working with employers and trustees on long-term projects relating to risk management
• Working with industry-wide pension schemes
• Documentation drafting
• Dispute resolution, from informal complaints by members to Pensions Ombudsman determinations
• All kinds of transactions, including those affecting private sector pensions
• Advice on scheme amendment, including closing to future benefit accrual
• Pensions advice in relation to employment issues, including settlement agreements