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Providing bespoke advice to professional services firms worldwide

Our leading professional services team specialises in professional liability matters and defends claims of alleged professional negligence against a wide variety of professionals including lawyers, accountants, architects, surveyors, company directors, finance and insurance brokers and healthcare professionals.

We support professional services firms and networks of all sizes. Our focus on each of the major professions enables us to understand the commercial, reputational and regulatory pressures each client faces, and to provide targeted risk management and other advice.

Our team has extensive experience of handling regulatory, disciplinary and investigatory proceedings on behalf of all professions. Our lawyers are adept at guiding clients through the particular challenges presented by parallel civil and disciplinary proceedings, including those which involve multiple jurisdictions.

Our Professional Services Work

  • Tout
  • Royaume-Uni et Europe

  • Coverage and monitoring following employer insolvency and PPF assessment

    Advising on coverage and monitoring in respect of notifications following employer insolvency and PPF assessment period commencing in relation to the Scheme

    Royaume-Uni

    Depreciation of fund value and subsequent losses

    Acting in a claim relating to alleged delay in winding up a company pension scheme and losses arising from the resulting fall in the fund value

    Royaume-Uni

    Equalising gender benefits following the "Barber" judgement

    Advising on failure to amend a scheme correctly to equalise benefits for men and women following the “Barber” judgment in 1991

    Royaume-Uni

    Incorrect "preservation" legislation in rules

    Advising on rules which incorrectly reflected the “preservation” legislation in the Pension Schemes Act 1993

    Royaume-Uni

    Incorrect drafting of rule consolidations

    Advising on incorrect drafting of rule consolidations

    Royaume-Uni

    Incorrect equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber

    Acting for a national firm and its insurers in relation to a claim brought by trustees of a retirement benefits scheme after advisers failed to carry out correctly the equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber which prevented the equalisation from being legally achieved on the date stated in the scheme documentation

    Royaume-Uni

    Knock-on effects of failure to properly amend scheme rules

    Advising on failure to properly amend the scheme rules correctly to reduce future benefits

    Royaume-Uni

    Loss of chance claims

    Acting on loss of chance claims

    Royaume-Uni

    Misapplication of funds claims against a trustee

    Successfully defending a trustee against a claim relating to misapplication of funds by a scheme member who had represented to the Insured that he was a company employee and therefore entitled to join a company pension scheme, when in fact he was not

    Royaume-Uni

    PTL policy claims

    Advising on claims under PTL policies for “exonerated loss” cover

    Royaume-Uni

  • Coverage and monitoring following employer insolvency and PPF assessment

    Advising on coverage and monitoring in respect of notifications following employer insolvency and PPF assessment period commencing in relation to the Scheme

    Royaume-Uni

    Depreciation of fund value and subsequent losses

    Acting in a claim relating to alleged delay in winding up a company pension scheme and losses arising from the resulting fall in the fund value

    Royaume-Uni

    Equalising gender benefits following the "Barber" judgement

    Advising on failure to amend a scheme correctly to equalise benefits for men and women following the “Barber” judgment in 1991

    Royaume-Uni

    Incorrect "preservation" legislation in rules

    Advising on rules which incorrectly reflected the “preservation” legislation in the Pension Schemes Act 1993

    Royaume-Uni

    Incorrect drafting of rule consolidations

    Advising on incorrect drafting of rule consolidations

    Royaume-Uni

    Incorrect equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber

    Acting for a national firm and its insurers in relation to a claim brought by trustees of a retirement benefits scheme after advisers failed to carry out correctly the equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber which prevented the equalisation from being legally achieved on the date stated in the scheme documentation

    Royaume-Uni

    Knock-on effects of failure to properly amend scheme rules

    Advising on failure to properly amend the scheme rules correctly to reduce future benefits

    Royaume-Uni

    Loss of chance claims

    Acting on loss of chance claims

    Royaume-Uni

    Misapplication of funds claims against a trustee

    Successfully defending a trustee against a claim relating to misapplication of funds by a scheme member who had represented to the Insured that he was a company employee and therefore entitled to join a company pension scheme, when in fact he was not

    Royaume-Uni

    PTL policy claims

    Advising on claims under PTL policies for “exonerated loss” cover

    Royaume-Uni

Our Professional Services team

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford

Partner

Mark Beswetherick
Mark Beswetherick

Partner

Anousheh Bromfield
Anousheh Bromfield

Partner

Anthony Brown
Anthony Brown

Partner

Fergal Cathie
Fergal Cathie

Partner

Tim Crockford
Tim Crockford

Partner

Dr. Radosław Góral
Dr. Radosław Góral

Partner

Athol Gordon
Athol Gordon

Partner

Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison

Partner

Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller

Partner

Patrick Perry
Patrick Perry

Partner

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