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Justin McGilloway

Justin advises a wide range of clients – employers (UK and international), trustees (including offshore), pension product providers and individuals – on all aspects of pensions law including the intricacies of pension scheme documentation, corporate transactions, Pension Regulator clearance, reorganising schemes and Pension Protection Fund negotiations, funding matters, closing schemes to future accrual and winding-up schemes. He also deals with pension scheme disputes with a particular interest in Pension Ombudsman complaints. Justin also specialises in employee benefits work and regularly provides advice on the structuring, implementation, maintenance and vesting of management and employee incentive arrangements to both UK and overseas companies. For the last decade or so he has been involved in unwinding historic Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) arrangements and negotiating settlements with HMRC. · Wedlake Bell LLP

EnglandPensions, Employee Benefits

About

Justin McGilloway is a Partner at Wedlake Bell LLP who advises employers (UK and international), trustees (including offshore), pension product providers and individuals on all aspects of pensions law and related employee benefits. He specialises in pension scheme documentation, corporate transactions, Pension Regulator clearance, reorganising schemes, Pension Protection Fund negotiations, funding matters, closing schemes to future accrual and winding-up schemes, pension scheme disputes including Pension Ombudsman complaints, and in structuring management and employee incentive arrangements; he has also been involved in unwinding historic Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) and negotiating settlements with HMRC.

Practice areas

PensionsEmployee Benefits

Office

Expertise

Pension scheme documentationPension Regulator clearancePension Protection Fund negotiationsScheme reorganisations and wind-upsPension scheme disputesPension Ombudsman complaintsEmployee incentive arrangementsEmployee Benefit Trust (EBT) unwinding and HMRC settlements

Education

  • Degree in Law, University of Dundee

Admissions

  • Qualified as a solicitor (2003)