Pensions Associate

Job Description

PENSIONS ASSOCIATE (3-5 YEARS PQE)LONDON/BIRMINGHAM/MANCHESTER/LEEDS/EDINBURGH OR GLASGOW About the FirmPinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 employees operating out of 27locations 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 understandingof 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, corporateand 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, technologyand tax advice.We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, whichoffers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.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 Inclusionconsultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.AwardsPinsent Masons has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, won the "Law Firm of the Year Award 2019Legal Business" for the second time and won Europes Most Innovative Law at the Financial Times Innovative LawyerAwards Europe 2020. Pinsent Masons was also named Law Firm of the Year 2018 by The Lawyer and is ranked No 4 on the UK Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2020 and named Stonewalls Top Global Employers 2020.BriefWe are currently recruiting a Pensions Associate with 3-5 years post qualification experience to join our Pensions team. We are open to candidates being based at our London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh or Glasgow office.The TeamThe Pinsent Masons LLP pensions team isone of the strongest pensions teams in the UK. Working across our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow we havearound 90 highly trained lawyers, paralegals and pensions consultants,all dedicated to providing clear, practical, cost-effective advice for our clients.Legal directories such as Legal 500 and Chambers consistently rate us as a top tier practice across all the locations in which we operate, with many of our team also being individually ranked or named. Our clients include, trustees, large global corporations,public authorities, pension providers and other financial institutions and we work across the market, advising on the full range of non-contentious and contentious issues. For example, we count many of the largest occupational schemes as our clients, whilstalso advising more master trusts than any other pensions team.The Candidate RequiredThe ideal candidate will have gained non-contentious experience in the pensions department of a London firm or a large regional practice.Candidates need to be technically excellent with strong academics. Equally important, they should be able to explain difficult things in simple terms and be commercially aware. They should also be enthusiastic about business development, with proven experienceof face to face client development and networking.Should you require further details, please contact our in house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen John who can discuss the role and requirements.Contact details: https://in/anwen-john-36177ba1/At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from allsuitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which weoperate.#LI-LRAJ