Philip Goodchild
Partner
A pension law expert, Philip is well known for his work in a range of sectors, in particular corporate and not-for-profit.
Partner
A pension law expert, Philip is well known for his work in a range of sectors, in particular corporate and not-for-profit.
Language - English
Jurisdiction - England & Wales
Philip’s experience in advising trustees and employers ranges from advising on liability reduction exercises such as ceasing accruals and buy in/buy out projects. After twenty five years in the industry there is virtually no area which Philip has not dealt with.
His technical skills and knowledge of general pension issues is of an extremely high level allowing him to provide clients with practical commercial advice regarding their pension arrangements.
Philip is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and a regular commentator on legal issues affecting pension provision in the press and industry publications. He has sat on the legislation sub-committee of the Society of Pension Consultants. He regularly speaks at seminars and workshops on topical legal issues. Philip is an accredited CEDR mediator.
Trustees of the Johnson and Johnson
Advising Trustees of the Johnson and Johnson main final salary scheme on the demerger of Johnson and Johnson and splitting of its pension funds into two arrangements. Advising various funds on closure to benefit accruals and future benefit provision.Covea insurance company UK pension fund / Horizon Social Housing
Advising the Covea insurance company UK pension fund / Horizon Social Housing on various projects to reduce liabilities and to rewrite the trust deed and rules and to assist with a project to coordinate professional adviser support across 3 group pension funds.Trustees of Paramount Pictures/UCI
Providing strategic advice to the trustees of Paramount Pictures/UCI pension fund on scheme sectionalisation and advising the Trustees of the FM Global Pension plan on its change of principal employer and (post Brexit) change of principal sponsor to a company based in Luxembourg from England.Trustees of the Barnardo's Staff Pension Scheme
Advising on various investment management agreements as the Trustees transitioned part of the fund into a synthetic equity portfolio.
Ryanair
Advising this leading airline company on its UK pension fund liabilities and employee contractual pension arrangements.
Trustees of the FM insurance company pension scheme
Advising on a range of changes to pension fund trust rules, and on contractual pension obligations to employees as part of mirroring benefits to USA employee pension arrangements.
CGGVeritas Trustees, new trust deed and rules
Provided complex advice on scheme benefit problems and pension increase issues and advised on the conclusion of a new trust deed to encapsulate the benefit changes.
Amicus Horizon Group, new trust deed and rules
Found solutions to the extremely complex scheme benefit issues for the new trust deed and rules. This ensured the employer was not left with a multi-million pound cost of unintended benefits.
