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Nigel Moore

Consultant

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Nigel Moore

Consultant

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Nigel Moore is a consultant in the Pensions Team. Until 2017, Nigel was Head of the Pensions Team until 2017, a role he held for 20 years. He is a very experienced practitioner, having advised on all aspects of UK pensions law for nearly 30 years. 

Nigel also has considerable management experience, having been Managing Director of the firm’s UK business for 3 years and having managed the firm’s Commercial Practice Group and then its Human Capital Group each for 4 years.

Nigel has specialised in pensions and employment related issues for nearly 30 years. He focuses particularly on strategic pensions projects, for example advising companies and trustees on pension scheme closures and benefit restructurings, takeover situations and major scheme mergers.  

He also has extensive experience of dealing with the Pensions Regulator, the Pension Protection Fund (he advised the trustees of the first pension scheme to apply for entry to the PPF) and the Financial Assistance Scheme. 

Nigel has wide-ranging litigation experience in the High Court, as well as dealing with Pensions Ombudsman investigations. He was also part of the team which took Coloroll, the leading case on equalisation to the European Court of Justice.

Nigel is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences, and has spoken three times at the Association of Pension Lawyers Annual Conference.

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"Nigel is “pragmatic, commercial and straightforward” and for his ability to read “difficult situations and people brilliantly”. Client feedback describes him as having “an in-depth knowledge of not only the legal aspects of the pensions world, but also of the wider facets.”"

Chambers

"Nigel is “pragmatic, commercial and straightforward” and for his ability to read “difficult situations and people brilliantly”. Client feedback describes him as having “an in-depth knowledge of not only the legal aspects of the pensions world, but also of the wider facets.”"

Chambers

Relevant experience

  • A number of trustees and major companies on proposals to terminate DB accrual.
  • The trustees of a pension scheme of one of the largest energy suppliers in the UK on a major review of benefits, leading to the capping of pensionable pay on a contractual basis and the introduction of a career average scheme and new DC arrangements.
  • On the process to de-sectionalise a DB scheme of a FT-SE 100 company and putting in place revised guarantees to support the new structure and manage its PPF liabilities.
  • A major UK insurer on a series of complex liability management exercises.
  • A multinational company on the management of complex negations with the Pensions Regulator in connection with TPR’s exercise of its moral hazard powers.
  • Appealing against demands issued by PPF, leading to a substantial reduction in PPF levies being paid.
  • Trustees of pension scheme on the consequences of a corporate transaction which would lead to the scheme being transferred to a US multinational.
  • An employer on a pension scheme merger along with the introduction of a complex asset backed funding structure.
  • On a number of merger projects involving the introduction of a new pension scheme alongside a winding up lump sum exercise.
  • Chair of trustees of firm’s DB pension scheme and trustee of two other DB pension schemes.
  • Chair of Governance Committee for firm’s DC scheme for staff.
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Education

  • 1986 - MA (Business Law) CNAA
  • 1984 – Law Society Final Examination, College of Law
  • 1983 - LLB (Hons) University of Warwick, Warwick
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Memberships

  • Member, Association of Pension Lawyers
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Expertise