Ross Connock

Ross advises both both pension scheme trustees and sponsoring employers in relation to covenant, scheme funding,corporate transactions and pension led restructuring.

His experience includes:

• Acting in a Scheme of Arrangement compromising creditor claims in order to keep a scheme out of the PPF, renegotiate a recovery plan and provide ongoing asset support to the scheme;
  
• Acting as liquidator in secondary proceedings in the UK in the matter of Alitalia, the former Italian flag carrier airline, following a winding up petition presented by the trustees of the UK pension scheme; and
• Advising trustees on the appropriate package of assets required within a proposed special purpose vehicle to provide an income stream to the scheme.
• Acting on a number of corporate transactions (MBO’s, disposals and acquisitions) in respect of impact and detriment tests, clearance processes and mitigation negotiation.

He has also specialised in providing financial and strategic reviews and formal insolvency solutions for over 30 years, across a broad range of sectors and sizes of companies. Ross works with troubled and under-performing businesses and their stakeholders on value recovery strategies.