CMS
Pensions - Senior Associate - Edinburgh
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Job Description
- Req#: 2137
Our highly regarded pensions practice is growing our Edinburgh-based team. We would love to hear from experienced lawyers from any background looking for a pensions role in a growing team. We provide great opportunities for development and exposure to high quality client work with a wide range of clients and training opportunities.
About CMSCMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.
We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working. Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.
About the Role
We have one of the largest and most highly regarded specialist pensions teams in the UK, our team currently comprises 18 partners and around 50 other fee earners across the UK – with a large team in London, and regional teams in Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
You would have the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of work with high quality clients both in Scotland and UK-wide and help us continue to grow in the Scottish market. We support fee earners with other qualification backgrounds looking to specialise in pensions and our team have a combination of backgrounds in commercial, insurance, corporate, public and employment law as well as in pensions. We are experienced in advising trustees and employers on all aspects of defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes and our team has a lot of client contact at all levels and the opportunity to run with matters from the start. We also have considerable experience advising on DC, group pensions, master trusts, insurance products (including buy-in and buy-out arrangements), longevity products and other structures, as well as pensions litigation and a busy public sector practice. We work closely with teams within CMS, such as employment, corporate, insurance, banking and funds teams giving great exposure to the wider firm. As part of a busy and developing team you will also be actively involved in our business development and marketing strategies.
We place a lot of importance on providing our fee earners with training and you would benefit from extensive internal training opportunities (both pensions specific and skills based), both on joining the team and throughout your career. We also encourage fee earners to take advantage of training and networking opportunities available through pension industry bodies.
We encourage our team to work in ways that suit their circumstances and embraces a flexible working culture.
About You
This is an exciting opportunity to join our market-leading pensions team. You’ll be involved in a wide range of high quality advisory work and you’ll receive exceptional training in a supportive and collaborative team.
Equal Opportunities
At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.
For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.
Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.
Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.#LI-SO1
About the company
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