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Employment, pensions and incentives

Our international employment, pensions and employee incentives practice is a market-leader, advising blue-chip corporates, financial institutions and public bodies on a range of contentious, non-contentious and advisory matters relating to their employees. Our pensions lawyers also advise scheme trustees and our employment team also advises senior board executives.

Head of department | Peter Frost

Main areas covered | corporate, advisory and litigation aspects relating to employment, pensions, and employee incentives

Key clients include | British American Tobacco | Citi | PwC | TimeWarner | TUI Travel

Sector expertise includes | accountancy, professional and business services | government and public sector | financial institutions | insurance and reinsurance | TMT

  • Blackstone Group on the global employment aspects of its US$3 billion acquisition of Cardinal Health
  • First Choice Holidays on the employment, pensions and incentives aspects of its merger with part of the business of TUI AG to form TUI Travel
  • Moneysupermarket.com on the pre-flotation corporate reorganisation of the group, including the impact of the reorganisation on the existing employee share scheme arrangements
  • Resolution on the employment, pensions and employee incentives aspects of the various merger proposals made successively by Friends Provident, Standard Life and ultimately Pearl Group
  • Stagecoach on the pensions issues arising out of the sale of their London Bus divisions to Macquarie Bank, and on a £700 million return of capital and consequent negotiations with the trustees of its £10 billion pension scheme
  • Transport for London on employment and pensions issues arising from the special PPP administration of Metronet