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Céline has 20 years’ experience in pensions legal practice, working with clients and professionals in the pensions industry on all aspects of pensions matters relating to occupational and personal pension arrangements, both contract and trust-based. She advises trustees and sponsoring employers of occupational pension schemes on issues such as the closure and restructuring of defined benefit pension schemes; scheme mergers; pensions issues on corporate acquisitions and disposals; contingent assets offered by employers to support pension liabilities; funding negotiations, dealing with the Pensions Regulator; managing scheme entries into the Pension Protection Fund and drafting scheme documentation.
Céline’s style is proactive and solutions-based, focussing on a thorough understanding of the issues, the obligations of trustees and employers, and the achievement of defined goals. Céline is also a professional trustee and an HMRC authorised scheme practitioner.
Céline has published two articles: ‘The Developing Rule in Hastings-Bass’ Pensions, Volume 9, Number 3 April 2004 and ‘Gallaher Ltd v Gallaher Pensions Ltd et al’ Pensions, Volume 11, Number 1 December 2005. Céline was also a regular contributor to industry online magazine Pensions Podcast and authored the Q&A section of the third edition of Pensions Global 2017.
Céline also has extensive experience as general legal counsel to the care home sector advising on issues including CQC compliance and inspection, local authority and CHC commissioning and contract tendering, GDPR and policies and procedures, and COVID-19.
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