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Stephanie Wigman
Senior Associate
Stephanie joined the pensions practice in Birmingham in 2009 having completed her training with the firm, including a secondment to the Paris office.
Stephanie advises on all aspects of occupational pension plans including governance, legislative compliance, plan documentation and member queries and communications.
In addition to advisory work, Stephanie is regularly involved in the practice's independent trustee work, where she actively assists in providing independent trustee services to a wide range of defined benefit pension plans.
- Advising numerous pension plans regarding winding-up and their position in relation to the Financial Assistance Scheme or the Pension Protection Fund.
- Advising on the merger of two pension plans.
- Advising a number of pensions plans in relation to closure to future accrual, from both a Trustee and Company perspective.
- Advising on the impact of changes in legislation.
Education
- University of Exeter, LL.B., Honors, 2005
- Universite de Rennes I, Master Degree, 2006
- College of Law, L.P.C., 2007
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2009
Memberships & Affiliations
- Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers
- Volunteers at the Birmingham Legal Advice Clinic
Languages
- English
- French
- She is regularly involved in the Business in the Community initiative in which the Birmingham office participates and organises the Right to Read initiative with a local school