Baker McKenzie

From strategic journey planning to daily pensions advisory work, the Baker McKenzie pensions team advises trustees, providers, and corporate-side clients on a host of pensions matters. The team works cross-practice to offer clients, often cross-jurisdictionally, advice on risk transfers, buy-ins and buyouts, carve-outs, pension scheme restructurings, and resolving issues related to multiple benefit sections and covenant support arrangements. Arron Slocombe, an expert in pension buyouts and liability management, regulatory clearance work, scheme mergers, and benefit and corporate restructurings, leads the team. The team is supported by stand-out practitioners Jonathan Sharp, a specialist in advising companies and trustees on amending schemes, investments, and resolving members’ complaints; Jeanette Holland, a specialist in large-scale restructurings involving the mitigation of pensions risks; and Tom McNaughton, experienced advising industry-wide schemes in risk management.