External Conferences
19th Biennial IPEBLA Conference
Monday 27th May 2024
Hilton Milan, Milan
Speakers:
David Pollard
David is a leading pension specialist covering all aspects of pensions law and litigation and the areas of insolvency and employment law where they impact pension issues.
David has combined expertise and experience as a barrister and as a solicitor, having spent 25 years as a partner at the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer before being called to the Bar. This specialist expertise and experience provides a unique offering to our clients in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious pension issues, and the related areas of insolvency and employment law.
David’s practice focuses on:
Throughout his career, David’s practice has included advising employers and trustees in relation to pension law matters, including corporate transactions, scheme funding, scheme mergers, scheme changes, employer insolvency and Pensions Regulator issues as a barrister but also in his former career as a solicitor.
David was chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers (APL) from 2001 to 2003.
David has published five books in the areas of pensions, insolvency and employment law: “Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law”; “Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making: Applying Braganza”; “The Law of Pension Trusts”; “Corporate Insolvency: Employment and Pension Rights” and “Employment Law and Pensions”.
David is an editor of the quarterly journal “Trust Law International”. He was also on the editorial board of the “Occupational Pensions Law Reports” and is on the advisory board for the Pensions section in Practical Law.
Pensions
David’s practice as a barrister, and before that as a solicitor includes advising employers and trustees in relation to pension law matters, including corporate transactions, scheme funding, scheme mergers, scheme changes, employer insolvency and Pensions Regulator issues.
David’s major work includes:
Corporate Transactions
Advising employers, trustees and shareholders on the pensions and employment implications of corporate transactions. Including dealing with section 75 debt implications (such as drafting and implementing scheme apportionment arrangements (SAAs) and flexible apportionment arrangements (FAAs)), funding issues, Take-over Code issues; trustee powers and implications of the powers of the Pensions Regulator (including numerous clearance applications and negotiations). Advised on transfer issues, setting up new schemes and issues under Tupe.
Scheme changes and mergers
Advising employers and trustees on issues arising from scheme changes, including equalisation (Barber), discrimination issues, scheme closures, external contracts, appointment and removal of trustees, changes to corporate trustee structures. employer consultation obligations (Tupe and Pensions Act 2004); taxation implications of changes. Advising on scheme mergers and bulk transfers.
Scheme funding
Advising employers and trustees on scheme funding and security issues, including guarantees, funding arrangements, grant of security, reservoir trusts and charged accounts; use of Scottish limited partnership structures and investment issues. Advised on the implications of various employer events (eg dividends, reduction of capital). Advised on salary sacrifice arrangements.
Employer Insolvency
Advising employers, trustees, insolvency practitioners and third-parties on the implications of employer insolvency, including section 75 debt issues, arrangements with the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund (including regulated apportionment arrangements).
Litigation
David’s noteworthy litigation cases (including as a solicitor) include:
Employment
David has a strong reputation in, and knowledge of, employment law, in particular pensions and insolvency related issues. The second edition of David’s book “Employment Law and Pensions” was published by Bloomsbury Professional in 2023.
David has written articles for The Industrial Law Journal. David is a member of the Industrial Law Society (ILS) and has spoken several times at its annual conference and evening seminars. He has a particular interest in complex areas (eg pensions and tupe).
APL
David was chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers (APL) from 2001 to 2003. He is currently on the APL Communications committee, having previously been on the APL’s Education & Seminars and Legislative & Parliamentary committees. The APL awarded David its ‘Wallace Medal’ in 1998 and again in 2015 (for excellence on communicating pensions issues). David has a regular column in the newsletter of the APL, with monthly entries:
A complete guru of the pensions world.
External Conferences
Monday 27th May 2024
Hilton Milan, Milan
Speakers:
David Pollard
Articles
David Pollard and Joseph Steadman’s article, ‘Pensions, personal bankruptcy and creditor recovery: recent developments’, has been published in Issue 37.2 of Trust Law International by Bloomsbury Publishing. Trust Law International is a well established quarterly journal with a mixed readership... Read more
By David Pollard | Joseph Steadman
Friday 15 September 2023
Events / Webinars
Wednesday 21st June 2023 | 12.30pm - 5.55pm, followed by drinks and dinner by Nobu
Nobu Shoreditch Hotel & Restaurant
£175 for conference & dinner / £125 for conference only | 3.5 CPD
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Tuesday 6th December 2022
Leeds
Speakers:
David Pollard | Edward Sawyer | Thomas Robinson | Jennifer Seaman | Joseph Steadman
Insolvency
David practices in insolvency law – mainly on the pensions and employment side.
His book on corporate insolvency issues on the intersection of insolvency law with pensions and employment rights is the main work on the topic. The seventh edition was published in October 2022.
David has given talks to insolvency organisations and in past years has contributed to submissions by R3 on various employment and pensions issues.
He has published in Insolvency journals (Recovery, Insolvency Intelligence) and given talks at insolvency conferences (ILA, INSOL, R3).
David’s noteworthy litigation cases (as a solicitor) include:
A complete guru of the pensions world
External Conferences
Monday 27th May 2024
Hilton Milan, Milan
Speakers:
David Pollard
External Conferences
Tuesday 10 October 2023 | 1.45pm - 5pm
Online
Speakers:
David Pollard
Articles
David Pollard and Joseph Steadman’s article, ‘Pensions, personal bankruptcy and creditor recovery: recent developments’, has been published in Issue 37.2 of Trust Law International by Bloomsbury Publishing. Trust Law International is a well established quarterly journal with a mixed readership... Read more
By David Pollard | Joseph Steadman
Friday 15 September 2023
Articles
David Pollard has been looking at the statutory provisions dealing with substantial disposals by a company in administration in the first 8 weeks of the administration. When is a potential purchaser a connected person under the new provisions that come... Read more
By David Pollard
Monday 5 December 2022
Registered name: Mr David Nigel Pollard
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