Pensions Lawyer

Pensions Lawyer: Bristol (Senior Associate)

We have exciting opportunities available for Senior Associate lawyers to join our client's highly regarded Pensions team in Bristol.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an experienced and well respected team and be involved in the whole spectrum of pensions work. You will have access to a broad range of high quality work, including contentious and non-contentious matters in both the private and public sectors. From the outset, you will be a valued member of the team and have the opportunity to work on some high profile matters, build client relationships and develop your business development skills.

Work carried out by the team includes:

• Providing advice to trustees and the PPF in relation to schemes progressing through a PPF assessment period including in relation to recent high-profile insolvencies.
• Providing a full range of LGPS related services to LGPS funds across England and Wales, including scheme administration, outsourcing, benefits, dispute resolution, and investment advice.
• Advising employers and trustees on future benefit design changes, including negotiating terms, inputting into consultation exercises, advising on changes to complex benefit structures, and responding to member enquiries.
• Advising employers and trustees on a broad spread of risk transfer exercises, including buy-ins and buy-outs.
• Advising employers and trustees on liability management exercises, including enhanced transfer value exercises and pension increase exchanges.
• Advising employers and trustees in relation to scheme errors, benefit corrections, and rectification.
• Providing advice in relation to investigations by the Pensions Regulator regarding the possible use of the Regulator's powers.
• Acting for representative beneficiaries in litigation relating to pension schemes.
• Drafting and amending pension scheme documentation and member communications.

Technical skills and experience

• Candidates should have some knowledge and transactional experience of working for pension (or other) clients in a variety of capacities.
• Ideally, they will have gained experience in non-contentious pensions work in another pensions team.

Career development

Candidates will benefit from their multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of their career, this provides clear expectations of their role and what it takes to progress, high-quality clients and work with early responsibility and client exposure, thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues, robust technical training with early skills based development, and reward for their contribution, progression, and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

They value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. They want everyone to feel that their organisation is a place where they can be themselves and belong, and their range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention their great teams - are a part of making that a reality. They value the health and wellbeing of their people and their wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

LHH is an employment consultancy that believes in talent, not labels. It is important to us that we run inclusive recruitment processes to support candidates of all abilities and encourage applicants of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. LHH is committed to building an inclusive, supportive environment to enable candidates to explore the next steps in their careers. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.