We have a firm understanding of the issues that cause pension scheme trustees to seek legal advice and support.
Dedicated, specialist legal support for employers and other scheme sponsors across a range of issues.
Occupational pension scheme support for sponsors, trustees or professional adviser, in the private or public sectors.
Support for clients who are initiating, responding to or grappling with the implications of change.
We are experienced in working with other firms when specialist pensions law advice is needed.
Kris is an all-round pensions lawyer with long-standing experience of advising pension trustees and sponsoring employers on all aspects of retirement benefit provision for current staff and other scheme members. His expertise ranges from establishment to wind-up of schemes via all points in between.
Kris’s particular interests include ‘scheme change’, liability management, and discrimination-related issues. His recent work has included a number of buy-in and buy-out contracts for trustees, advising both on benefit specifications and negotiating the wider contractual terms. Kris also has considerable experience of advising employers in industry-wide schemes relating to the UK’s former nationalised industries.
Kris has been individually ranked in the legal directories on a regular basis since 2003. He has served on the Main Committee of the Association of Pension Lawyers (including a four-year term as Secretary) and on the Legislation Committee of the Society of Pension Professionals.
Kris currently sits on the editorial board of Practical Law Pensions and is the author of the Scheme Funding, Surpluses and Deficits chapters in Tolley’s Pensions Law.
Kris has practised pensions law since the mid-1990s holding a variety of senior …
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