Pensions

The highly regarded Burness pensions team provides commercial, client-friendly and responsive advice on all areas of pensions law.  Our diverse practice and depth of experience enables us to consider issues from different perspectives and to focus on finding workable, commercial solutions tailored to fit our clients’ needs. 

We work with a variety of clients across a wide range of industries and business sectors.  Clients include multi-national corporations, owner managed businesses, trustees of defined benefit and hybrid pension schemes (of various size), charities and public bodies.

Our recent work includes:-

  • liability management including changes to benefits and closure of defined benefit pension schemes;
  • advice on new law (legislation and cases) and the impact for our clients;
  • withdrawal of employers from multi-employer schemes;
  • public sector transfers;
  • revising trust documentation to comply with new legislation and the new tax regime;
  • pensions aspects of mergers and acquisitions; and
  • acting as professional independent trustee for defined benefit pension schemes.

Often working to tight deadlines and in commercially sensitive situations, our team combines an enviable depth of resource and experience.

"Clients are content that the team is straightforward to deal with, practical and doesn’t get bogged down with arcane arguments." Chambers UK

"service is excellent, timely, committed, astute and commercial" Legal 500 2009
 

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