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Alexandra Heggie
Associate
Alexandra joined the Pensions Practice Group as an associate in 2012, having trained with the firm. During her training, she completed a four-month secondment at the Paris office.
She has experience of advising both individual and corporate trustees and sponsoring employers on a wide range of aspects of occupational pension plans including governance, legislative compliance, plan documentation and member queries relating to both defined benefit and defined contribution arrangements.
- Advising the trustees of a large defined benefit pension plan on a restructuring of the plan, including a demerger of the plan and the establishment of a common investment fund.
- Advising an employer on the merger of its three defined benefit pension plans into a single newly-established arrangement.
- Advising an employer on a proposal to close its final salary pension plan to future accrual.
- Advising the pension plan trustees on a proposed sale of the plan's principal employer and the resulting loss of a company guarantee.
- Advising a group of individual trustees on the adoption of a corporate trustee structure for their pension plan.
- Advising the trustees of a defined benefit pension plan on its position following the insolvency of the sponsoring employer and its transfer into the Pension Protection Fund.
- Drafting pension plan documentation, including deeds of amendment, merger and demerger deeds and consolidated definitive trust deeds.
- Advising on the impact of changes in legislation.
Education
- College of Law, LL.B., L.P.C, 2010
- College of Law, Graduate Diploma, Law, 2009
- Durham University, B.A., Honors, 2008
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2012
Languages
- English
- French