Ben Goldby Partner

Ben Goldby

Ben Goldby helps trustee and sponsoring employer clients to navigate the complex and ever-changing legislative and regulatory pensions landscape.

He has advised on scheme mergers, liability management exercises, buy-in and buy-out risk transfer projects, closure of final salary pension schemes to future accrual and scheme wind-up. Ben also advises employer clients on group life assurance and healthcare trusts.

Ben enjoys the variety of working across a number of industries and sectors, while maintaining his focus on providing clear and commercially focused legal solutions. As a former journalist he uses his communication skills to provide engaging, simple and accessible pensions law advice to clients.

Highlights

• Working against the clock on a £200 million pensioner buy-in to produce benefit specifications, negotiate contractual terms with the insurer and provide clear and concise trustee advice.
• The closure to future accrual of two large DB pension schemes for a major client.
• The buy-out and wind-up of a £100 million executive top-up DB pension scheme.

Experience

• Supporting the Trustees of a large multi-section final salary scheme on a pensioner buy-in.
• Advising on both Barber and GMP equalisation issues and correction exercises for a range of clients across various sectors.
• Providing advice to trustee clients on various liability management exercises including PIEs, FROs and ETVs.
• Setting up a healthcare trust for a large employer and providing regular training to the trustees.
• Advising an education sector client on a scheme merger, including benefit specification reviews, merger deed amendments and providing quick and effective solutions to potential problems.
• Advising on a DC to DC bulk transfer proposal for a closed DB scheme with a large DC section.