Job Description

Pensions Litigation Associate

London / Manchester

Brief

We are looking to recruit a Pensions Litigation Associate who is NQ-6 years PQE to join the pensions team in our London or Manchester office.

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.
The Pensions team acts for large and complex pension schemes and financial institutions on matters such as restructurings, de-risking, and investment arrangement. The group is sought after for its expertise in pension buy-in and buy-out transactions, as well as for its specialist pensions litigation team.


Our pensions litigation team is led by Partner Hayley Goldstone, a nationally recognised expert in pensions litigation . The team specialises in resolving complex issues including professional negligence, rectification claims, and regulatory investigations. Known for its strategic insight and pragmatic approach, the team advises trustees, employers, and insurers across a wide range of sectors. With deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset, the pensions litigation team delivers commercially focused solutions to some of the most challenging pensions litigation matters. The team has an enviable roster of clients acting for employers, trustees, insurers and a global benefit consultancy firm...

The Candidate - what are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have gained experience in pensions and/or litigation.


Candidates need to combine technical excellence with strong communication skills, plenty of common sense and the ability to develop good relationships with colleagues and clients. Equally important, they should be commercially aware and should be enthusiastic about business development, with experience of face to face client development and networking.

Who will you be working with?

We are first and foremost great people to work with. We have a supportive and inclusive culture we aim to make working for us professionally stimulating and enjoyable.


As a pensions litigator the world is your oyster. Our pensions/pensions litigation team is award winning and highly rated with an enviable client list including PLCs, large insurers and leading benefit consultants. You will be joining a team with a great track record undertaking fantastic, varied and cutting edge work. There are many diverse aspects to the role and you will have the opportunity to be involved in a great variety of pensions-based litigation.


Legal 500 and Chambers consistently rate us as a leading UK-wide pensions litigation team - and we've won Pensions Litigation team of the year twice at the Professional Pensions awards.

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 global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across 4 continents. The firm is focused and ambitious and is currently actively growing the UK business as well as our European, Middle East (new office in Riyad) and Asia Pac businesses. The US is also a target market. The firm has ambitious growth targets in the next 3 years as well as being committed to supporting its people and the communities in which the firm has a presence. The firm operates a secondment programme to other international offices (6 months) and these opportunities are open to everyone in the firm.

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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