Sacker & Partners LLP, the UK’s leading specialist pensions law firm, has moved from its office in Ludgate Hill to new premises on the sixth floor of 20 Gresham Street, taking effect from 1 January 2011.
Sacker & Partners LLP, the UK’s leading specialist pensions law firm, has appointed Tom Jackman as a solicitor, taking the total number of pensions lawyers to 52.
The administrators for Nortel Networks and Lehman Brothers have joined forces to seek a Court ruling regarding the Financial Support Direction (FSD) imposed by the Pensions Regulator (TPR). The FSD means that all Nortel and Lehman Brothers companies to whom it is directed must provide financial support for their pension schemes, on the grounds that they were insufficiently resourced.
Ius Laboris, the global alliance of leading Human Resource law practitioners – of which Sackers is a member – has responded to the EU’s Green Paper on pensions, after taking the views of its pensions specialists throughout the EU.
Sacker & Partners LLP has once again been ranked top tier for both “Pensions” and “Pensions Litigation” by Chambers UK directory of top legal practices. The directory’s rankings are based on a programme of interviews with clients and other law firms.
On 29 July 2010, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and Department for Work and Pensions produced a joint consultation on the proposed phasing out of the default retirement age (DRA). The consultation closed yesterday.
Sackers' responds to the Department for Work and Pensions consultation on draft consequential legislation which is designed to implement the planned abolition of contracting-out on a defined contribution (DC) basis from 6 April 2012.
The Trustee of the EMI Group Pension Fund has reached agreement with the EMI Group regarding the long term funding of the scheme, thus avoiding a hearing before the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator. Sacker & Partners LLP (Sackers) advised the Trustee during the negotiations.
Sacker & Partners (Sackers), the UK’s leading pensions law firm, has been awarded the Managing Partners’ Forum (MPF) European Practice Management award for exceptional achievement at its awards ceremony last night.
Sackers comments on pensions tax relief announcement