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Maturing schemes and endgame planning: The pensions ‘teenage years’

In an article for Pensions Expert, senior counsel Naomi Brown explains the parallels between managing a maturing defined benefit scheme and life as a parent. Like parents raising their children to stand on their own two feet, trustees are essentially managing their pension scheme until it’s time to wind up. The big question for both...

Sackers appoints four new Associates

Sackers today announced further expansion with the appointment of four new associates – Emmijo Barwe, Susannah Hill, Will Dillon and Ciara Burke. This takes the total number of lawyers at...

Today’s Budget – IHT to apply to wealth passed on through pensions

Claire Carey, partner, comments: “Grappling with an apparently large hole in Treasury coffers, the first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered the Budget earlier today. With Labour having...

Sackers retains top tier ranking in 2025 Chambers directory

Sackers has retained its Band 1 ranking for pensions for another consecutive year in the 2025 edition of Chambers legal directory. We are also delighted to announce that we have been promoted back...

Sackers maintains top tier rankings in Legal 500

Sackers has retained its top tier rankings for pensions and pensions litigation for another consecutive year in the 2025 edition of Legal 500. Legal 500 2025 describes Sackers as “fielding a large...

Emily Rowley speaks at the Pensions Age Autumn Conference

Associate director Emily Rowley speaks at this year’s Pensions Age Autumn Conference on DB consolidation. Emily and David Taylor, Executive Board Member and General Counsel of the Pension...

Andy Lewis set to join Sackers as partner

Sackers today announced that Andy Lewis will be joining the firm as a partner on 4 November from Travers Smith. David Saunders, senior partner, said: “Andy is a highly regarded pensions lawyer in...