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Alex Lane

Senior Associate

Alex is an experienced pensions lawyer and a Senior Associate in our London office helping clients to navigate a range of UK and cross-border pensions issues. 

Alex provides a full pensions law service to trustees, corporates and professional advisors across various sectors and on both DB and DC-related matters. In particular, Alex can help you navigate a full range of high-profile and large-scale strategic legal projects, including corporate transactions, disputes, and pensions regulatory matters.

On corporate transactions, Alex provides valuable pensions input across a range of transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, refinancings, and corporate restructurings. Alex has experience in international transactions and has coordinated advice across multiple jurisdictions.

Alex can also help guide clients through the process required to change pension benefits and has experience of closures to accrual, incentive exercises, and changes to future benefit accrual.

Alex also advises clients on pensions litigation and disputes, including matters involving the Pensions Regulator, applications for rectification, and complaints involving the Pensions Ombudsman. His experience of matters involving the Pensions Regulator includes compliance issues relating to automatic enrolment and regulator investigations relating to the funding of defined benefit pension schemes and the use of 'moral hazard' powers.

Alex has undertaken a secondment to Legal & General Investment Management Limited, where he advised internal stakeholders on the creation, management and delivery of the organisation’s DC pension products.

Alex is an experienced presenter and has spoken at a variety of internal and external conferences. This includes Eversheds Sutherland's pensions webinar series and the firm's International Pensions Promises Course. 

Corporate transactions

  • conducting pensions due diligence on two global businesses across multiple jurisdictions, and co-ordinating strategic advice relating to the sale of these businesses
  • advising a large insurance group on the pensions aspects of a range of strategic corporate acquisitions 
  • advising the trustee of a defined benefit pension on the acquisition of its publicly listed sponsor, and the agreement of a long-term package to support the pension scheme
  • advising a global paint company on the consolidation of their UK Group and the management of their group-wide pensions liabilities
  • advising the trustees of a defined benefit pension on the acquisition of its sponsor
  • advising a global logistics group on the pensions aspects of a corporate restructuring of their business and agreeing on measures for managing the group's UK pension liabilities with the scheme's trustees
  • advising a range of clients on transactions involving defined benefit pension plans

Litigation and disputes

  • advising on various aspects of enforcement action relating to compliance with automatic enrolment compliance
  • advising a global cosmetics brand on a complex Part 8 claim in respect of a continuing link to final salary (with an associated claim for professional negligence)
  • assisting the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes on several applications for rectification
  • responding to a range of internal and Pensions Ombudsman complaints relating to historical pensions transfers
  • Associate Member, Association of Pensions Lawyers
  • Legal Practice Course, 2013-2014
  • LLB (Hons) Law, 2009-2012
Alex Lane

Senior Associate

Alex Lane

Senior Associate

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