Dealing with Pensions: The Practical Impact of the Pensions Act 2004 on Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructurings and Insolvencies - Softcover

The UK's Pensions Act 2004 provides additional protection for members of defined benefit occupational pension schemes. In doing so it establishes both a pensions regulator and a pensions protection fund. The new rules impose funding obligations on employers which, it was thought by the legislators, they would attempt to evade. The provisions however may lead to unintended consequences for some UK businesses in the same group of companies, in situations where no abuse has taken place. Dealing with Pensions is essential reading for trustees of pension schemes, company directors, managing directors, finance directors, company secretaries, actuaries, lawyers, accountants, insolvency practitioners.

Robin Ellison is a partner at Pinsent Masons, and is also a member of the CBI Pensions Panel, Vice Chairman of the NAPF Benefits Council, and was a founder of the Association of Pensions Lawyers. In 1997 he was elected the first solicitor Honorary Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute. He is the author of numerous books on pensions including a four volume loose-leaf Pensions Law and Practice, (Sweet & Maxwell) and Family Breakdown and Pensions (Butterworths 2001, 2nd ed) and is editor of Pensions Benefits Law Reports.
Grant Jones of Haarmann Hemmelrath, Solicitors, is a Chartered Accountant, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner & Solicitor. Prior to practising as a Solicitor, Grant took numerous appointments under the Insolvency Act 1986, developing a specialism in pension related insolvencies. Grant sits on the steering education committee of the UK insolvency body (R3) and on the disciplinary committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, specialising in insolvency and financial services complaints. A regular speaker, Grant has co-authored 'The Insolvency Volumes: a Multimedia Guide' (IPS freeware).