Joe Webster

Joe is a Legal Director in the pensions team and provides advice to both employers and trustees in relation to all aspects of pensions law and practice, including establishing, operating, amending and winding up pension schemes.

He has extensive experience of drafting scheme trust deeds and rules and other governing documents, including the drafting, certification and recertification of Pension Protection Fund compliant contingent assets. He also advises clients on the pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals, as well as insolvencies, restructuring and pensions disputes.

Additionally, Joe provides advice to trustees and the Pension Protection Fund in order to progress pension schemes through the qualification process for assistance from the Financial Assistance Scheme or Pension Protection Fund assessment period.

Joe has also advised charity / not for profit sector employers on their successful withdrawal from non-associated multi-employer schemes, including project managing clients through the employer debt payment process, advising on the transfer of assets and liabilities to another scheme and even the establishment of a new scheme to accept such a transfer.

Joe joined Osborne Clarke in February 2011, having qualified as a pensions solicitor in April 2009. Joe is a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Joe Webster is a joy to work with. He provides a technically excellent service in a ready user-friendly way. He is an exception in a private legal practice in that he provides the perfect in-house lawyer service; law that can be easily used and applied, not an academic treatise requiring cold towels round the head to be read in a darkened room.’ Pensions Client.

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