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gunnercooke brings together experienced lawyers across all corporate and commercial disciplines. Every gunnercooke partner has minimum of 10,000 hours’ practising experience, which ensures that every client is advised by a trusted advisor or a team of trusted advisors who understand how to help them to navigate their legal issue. We call it delivering ‘peace of mind’.
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gunnercooke is a challenger law firm. It challenges the way that legal services are delivered to clients. It challenges the way that lawyers balance their lives. It challenges the way our communities are served by those of us more fortunate. Most of all, it gives lives back to our lawyers and enables them to design their life as they wish to live it – which we believe enables them to deliver a brilliant service to their clients. And it works. Today we are one of the UK’s leading commercial law firms, as measured by our clients, with a Net Promoter Score of on average +84.
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Testimonials
"Able to understand the issues in an instant", "extremely knowledgeable" and "appreciated for his communication skills”
Chambers Directory
"Has good knowledge of the inner workings of pension issues, and looks at the practical business side of things"
Client
“Adam Bushby advises employers and trustees on all aspects of occupational and personal pension schemes. Sources consider him to be "commercial, sensible and personable."
Chambers UK”
"The relationships with the team are very good. This is not just from a business perspective they are also good company, very approachable and human.”
Pensions Manager
"The team’s approach, which is valued by sources, is “about providing a firm recommendation on issues, rather than talking around them. They are also willing to look at situations from all angles”
Chambers UK
Expertise
Adam has over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of non-contentious and contentious pensions law. Adam’s clients are trustees, employers, actuaries, benefit consultants, senior executives and IFAs. He has a particular interest in helping employers of all sizes reduce their pensions liabilities and risks through pension scheme closures, member option exercises and partial or total buyouts of pension benefits. On the contentious side Adam advises trustees, employers and benefit consultancies on professional negligence claims, typically around errors in scheme drafting and the equalisation of normal retirement ages for men and women, and on Part 8 claims for the rectification or interpretation of scheme documents. As a trusted advisor in his field, he has been recognised in the Chambers directory as being ‘able to understand the issues in an instant’, ‘extremely knowledgeable’ and ‘appreciated for his communication skills’.
Adam Advises
Adam advises across the full spectrum of pensions matters, such as:
- Providing advice to Pension Scheme Trustees
- Merger of pension arrangements
- Salary Sacrifice
- Management of closure of final salary or defined benefit pension schemes to future accrual for employers
- Strategic reviews of employer benefit provision
- Advice to both contractors and local authorities in relation to outsourcing and participation in the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Pensions and benefit issues on multijurisdictional transactions.
Publications
- Professional Pensions
- Contributor to Butterworths Takeovers: Law and Practice
- Author Pensions chapter of A Practitioner’s Guide to Private Equity
Awards
- Super Lawyers London 2013 – Super Lawyers
- Leading Individual (Pensions and Pensions Litigation) 2013 – Chambers UK
- Legal Expert (Pensions) 2012 – Legal Business
- Full member of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees (November 2016)
Career History
Previous Law Firms
- Gowling WLG UK
- Norton Rose LLP
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Eversheds
Other Professional Information
- Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers
- Member of IPEBLA
Education
- The University of Birmingham (LLB)
- Hymers College
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For further advice please contact us for a consultation.
UK Contact
+44 (0)3330 143 401 info@gunnercooke.comGermany Contact
+49 30 220 131-000 centralservices@gunnercooke.de