Pensions Lawyer (Senior Associate)

Pensions Lawyer (Senior Associate) 6 to 12 years plus PQE

Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh

Brief

We are looking to recruit a 6 to 12 years plus PQE lawyer to join our Scottish pensions team which is top ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories.

Background

The Pinsent Masons pensions team isone of the strongest pensions teams in the UK. Spanning our offices in London Birmingham Manchester Leeds Edinburgh and Glasgow we haveover 70 highly trained lawyers paralegals and independent trustee administrators. We are dedicated to providing clear practical cost-effective advice for our clients which include large global corporations pension fund trustees public authorities insurance companies and other financial strength in the pensions field is reflected in an extensive list of clients which includes trustees sponsors bulk annuity insurers third party administrators and master trusts.

Legal directories such as Legal 500 and Chambers consistently rate us as a leading pensions team in London the West Midlands the North and in Scotland. Incorporating a market-leading pensions litigation practice and an in-house independent trustee company no pensions team has a greater breadth of expertise and we have successfully future-proofed our practice by extending our work into areas that are outside of the traditional comfort zone for pension lawyers examples of this being our high profile work for pension providers and our ground-breaking work in relation to pension fund investment in addition as part of a firm with an impressive full-service capability we are able to deal with every type of pensions issue no matter what other areas it may touch upon.

We are unique in providing a pensions practice which is arranged into a series of client service lines to help bring a clearer focus to our work and allow members of the team to develop their skills and increase their experience in particular areas.

An ambitious team which is continuing to grow we have a high profile within Pinsent Masons and across the pensions market. We are the only pensions team to have won awards for innovation having won FT Innovative Lawyer Awards.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate will:

• ideally have gained experience in the pensions department of a City firm or large regional practice and already have a good level of knowledge and experience of pensions law.
• be a team player able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment;
• be technically strong and able to exercise good commercial judgment;
• have the interpersonal skills necessary to develop effective working relationships with clients market contacts and the wider firm

The role is addition to providing advice on technical pensions law issues across the different work types that the team covers the successful candidate can expect to be involved in the teams client and market-facing activities. This will include client meetings training sessions and networking and working routinely with colleagues in Edinburgh and Glasgow and across the wider national pensions team.

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.
• Responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm with over 3800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe Asia Pacific Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services energy infrastructure real estate and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds corporate and M&A commercial competition litigation and arbitration banking restructuring insurance regulatory construction projects pensions property planning and environmental procurement outsourcing employment share plans and incentives technology and tax advice.

We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people 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 their ethnicity religion age physical or mental disability/long term condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions operates a hub of freelance lawyers called Vario and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy Brook Graham.

Put simply we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients enabled by our people process and technology.

Awards

Were being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business the FTs most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years) winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as aTop Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBTQ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as aDisability Confident Employerby theDepartment for Work & Pensionsand we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - an inclusive employer we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Should you require further details please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.

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