Pension Law Specialist

7 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom BCL Legal Full time
About the Role:

BCL Legal is partnering with a Top Tier L500 national law firm to recruit a newly qualified solicitor for their office in Northampton.

The team focuses on finding commercially effective solutions to pensions problems, drafting scheme documentation, and advising on transactions involving pension schemes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide high-quality, timely, solution-focused, and pragmatic pensions law advice to trustee and employer clients across the public and private sector.
  • Contribute technical analysis of pension law aspects of corporate activity and take a role in negotiations to ensure an appropriate outcome.
  • Support internal legal knowledge management and contribute to colleague and client learning and development through formal or informal training.
  • Provide robust legal advice on scheme rules interpretation, discretionary powers exercise, and pension dispute management, including Counsel instruction where necessary.
  • Work on risk reduction and transfer exercises, including liability management and one-off projects like incentive exercises and scheme closures, mergers, de-mergers, buy-outs, and wind-ups.
  • Support mergers, acquisitions, or disposals, covering assessment of seller's pension arrangements, advice on warranties, and employer debt regime.
  • Advise on auto-enrolment compliance, including contractual enrolment and salary sacrifice arrangements, scope of the regime implications, and changing to a new provider.
  • Provide specialist advice, knowledge management, and training to other business units.

Requirements:

  • A mix of transactional and advisory work experience, gained as part of a reputable pensions team.
  • Relevant legal knowledge of legislation such as the Pensions Act 1995, Pensions Act 2004, and Pensions Act 2008.
  • Experience providing consistent, clear, audience-tailored legal advice on pension law matters.

What We Offer:

  • An estimated salary of £55,000 - £65,000 per annum, depending on experience.
  • An extensive benefits package.
  • A bonus scheme.
  • International secondments for 0-5 PQE.


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