Michael Calvert has "excellent knowledge, is approachable,
and provides what is required". Chambers 2013
Michael Calvert has specialised in pensions law since qualifying in 1989. He has
wide experience advising trustees and employers on the full range
of pension issues and has a particular expertise in the pension
implications for schemes and companies of corporate transactions
and restructurings and in funding and employer debt mitigation
structures. He also advises on Pensions Regulator and Pension
Protection Fund issues, scheme mergers, benefit changes, windings
up and disputes, as well as more routine scheme documentation and
maintenance issues.
Michael is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and
from 2003 to 2008 sat on the pensions committee of ILAG (the
Investment and Life Assurance Group), a trade body for producers or
distributors of pension, investment and related products.
Michael specialises in the financial
institutions, technology &
telecommunications, energy, life sciences, media &
entertainment, public sector and
transport sectors.
Michael speaks regularly at internal and external seminars, most
recently the NAPF South local group on issues when changing pension
benefits and as chair of a seminar hosted by British and American
Business Inc on the Pensions Regulator and corporate
transactions.
He has written articles for and been quoted in a number of
publications, including Legal Business, Pensions
Week and R3 (a journal for insolvency
practitioners).
"Michael Calvert is good at meeting deadlines and keeping
costs down." Chambers 2012
"Michael Calvert is praised by his
business-focused, common-sense approach." Chambers 2011