AddressPENSIONS ASSOCIATE / SENIOR ASSOCIATE
SCOTLAND
Brief
We are looking to recruit a Pensions Associate / Senior Associate who is 6+yrs PQE to join the Glasgow pensions team which is top ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories.
The Pensions Team
Pinsent Masons LLP has one of the largest and strongest pensions law teams in the UK spanning Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds and advises clients on all non-contentious and contentious pensions law issues.
Our pensions team includes 19 partners and around 40 other lawyers, based in our offices across the UK. As well as day to day advice to pension schemes of all shapes and sizes, the team’s work includes:
- risk transfer, where we advise trustees, employers and insurance companies on risk transfer transaction
- advising pension businesses, including pension providers, administrators and DB and DC master trusts
- investment work, working alongside our funds and sustainable finance teams
- transaction support, both public and private sector and including corporate restructurings
- litigation, covering professional negligence, rectification, representative beneficiary and Pensions Ombudsman matters and regulatory investigations.
Our pensions team in Scotland consists of four partners, Ian Gordon, Ruth Tobias, Cameron McCulloch and Amie Bain, legal director Alison Shackleton, and four other lawyers. Our strength in the pensions field is reflected in an extensive list of clients, which includes trustees, employers and funds.
We are unique in providing a pensions practice which is arranged into a series of client service lines, to help bring a clearer focus to our work, and allow members of the team to develop their skills and increase their experience in particular areas.
The Candidate – what are we looking for?
The successful candidate will:
- ideally have gained experience in the pensions department of a City firm or large regional practice, and already have a good level of knowledge and experience of pensions law;
- be a team player, able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment;
- be technically strong and able to exercise good commercial judgment; and
- have the interpersonal skills necessary to develop effective working relationships with clients, market contacts and the wider firm.
The role is wide-ranging. In addition to providing advice on technical pensions law issues across the different work types that the team covers, the successful candidate can expect to be involved in the team’s client and market-facing activities. This will include client meetings, training sessions and networking and working routinely with colleagues in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and across the wider national pensions team.
Awards
Pinsent Masons won the ‘Europe’s Most Innovative Law Firm’ at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards Europe 2023 and the ‘Best Talent and Inclusion’ award at The Lawyer Awards 2022. The firm is also named Diversity & Inclusion Firm of the Year 2023 by the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards. The firm has placed in the Top 10 Top Employers for Working Families for its 7th consecutive year. Go to www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades to view all of our global awards and nominations.
What will we offer you?
- We are a market leading, dynamic and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
- We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, regular career discussions, and annual appraisals. The quality and depth of our training reflects our position as a market leader. Our training will assist you to develop as a pensions specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver high quality services.
- Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
- A competitive remuneration package.
About the firm
Pinsent Masons is a purpose-led, professional services business with law at its core. We rank in the global 100 of law firms, with over 3,400 employees operating out of 27 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.
Please note we only accept applications made via our recruitment portal. Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Steffy Lam who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffy-lam-715241238/
steffy.lam@pinsentmasons.com
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
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