Richard Pettit

Richard advises companies and pension scheme trustees on issues including moral hazard investigations, corporate restructuring, Pension Protection Fund work, funding negotiations, scheme documentation, closures and mergers. Richard's work has included advising scheme trustees on a high-profile moral hazard investigation by the Pensions Regulator involving a financial support direction being sought against a UK and overseas listed plc; advising a manufacturing company with a pension scheme with a £60 million deficit on the entry of the scheme into the Pension Protection Fund; and providing legal advice on the detailed mitigation for a pension scheme in the context of a £4bn restructuring of the supporting employer group. · Burges Salmon LLP

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About

Partner at Burges Salmon LLP advising companies and pension scheme trustees on moral hazard investigations, corporate restructuring, Pension Protection Fund matters, funding negotiations, scheme documentation, scheme closures and mergers.

Practice areas

PensionsPension Protection FundCorporate RestructuringRegulatory Investigations

Office

England

Burges Salmon LLP · Richard advises companies and pension scheme trustees on issues including moral hazard investigations, corporate restructuring, Pension Protection Fund work, funding negotiations, scheme documentation, closures and mergers. Richard's work has included advising scheme trustees on a high-profile moral hazard investigation by the Pensions Regulator involving a financial support direction being sought against a UK and overseas listed plc; advising a manufacturing company with a pension scheme with a £60 million deficit on the entry of the scheme into the Pension Protection Fund; and providing legal advice on the detailed mitigation for a pension scheme in the context of a £4bn restructuring of the supporting employer group.

England

Expertise

Moral hazard investigations by the Pensions RegulatorPension Protection Fund entry and mitigationFunding negotiations for pension schemesScheme documentation, closures and mergersAdvice in large-scale corporate restructurings affecting pension schemes

Education

King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Exeter College, Oxford — BA Jurisprudence; MA (2003)
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice — LPC (2004)

Admissions

England and Wales (2006)
Northern Ireland (2012)