Pensions Lawyer (Senior Associate)

The role is wide-ranging. In 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 team’s 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.
  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 Pinsent Masons pensions team is one of the strongest pensions teams in the UK. Spanning our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow, we have over 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 institutions. Our 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 infrastructure. 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., Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 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 We’re 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 FT’s 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 a Top 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 a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.