Oliver Reece

Oliver heads up the pensions legal team having established it in 2006 when he joined from the Pensions Regulator. He has spent the last ten years developing a legal offering that complements PwC's full service pensions offering to meet clients' needs. Oliver is very passionate about providing a legal service that is aimed at achieving client goals rather than one that appears to be there to create obstacles! He is also a trained mediator.

Oliver advises on all areas of pensions law and regulation but particularly the following areas:

• the Pensions Regulator's 'moral hazard' powers, including defending actions and responding to regulatory enquiries
• pensions litigation including court applications for clarification of scheme provisions, rectification and Hastings Bass claims, and resolving professional negligence matters
• the pensions implications of mergers and acquisitions and other transactions
• the pensions aspects of both solvent and insolvent group restructurings
• defined contribution arrangements including implementation of auto enrolment arrangements and ongoing compliance
• benefits change exercises, from restructuring benefits and transfer proposals to full scheme closures and wind ups
• a wide variety of funding issues from putting in place asset backed funding arrangements (such as Scottish limited partnerships, reservoir trusts and escrow agreements) and scheme buy-outs

"Under the energetic and imaginative leadership of the charismatic Oliver Reece, PwC LLP is 'making fast progress in the market', and provides a wide range of services, including a 'proactive and innovative' indexation review initiative." -Legal 500