Experience Advising:

• UPS on the pensions aspects of its acquisition of Parcel Motel's owner, Nightline Logistics.
• Endo Health Solutions on the pensions aspects of its $1.6bn acquisition of Paladin Labs and related Corporate Inversion into Ireland.
• Carlyle Group on the pensions aspects of its acquisition of Sam McAuley Chemists.
• An international buyer on the pensions law aspects of its acquisition of a specialist packaging and container company, including how to manage issues associated with a number of defined benefit schemes whose trustees were threatening deficit demands on winding-up.
• Employers and trustees of a number of large defined benefit schemes in respect of scheme restructurings, including closing to accrual, extrinsic contracts, section 50 applications and scheme wind-ups.
• Employers and trustees of a number of large defined benefit schemes on the litigation and mediation of pension disputes, including high-profile Commercial Court proceedings.