The pensions team at Glasgow firm Bishop & Robertson Chalmers has been appointed independent trustee for the occupational pension scheme of 6,000 workers and former employees at the recently privatised Rosyth Royal Dockyard. The scheme, with more than £300m in assets, is one of the biggest still administered in Scotland. Bishop's pensions unit set up a separate limited company Mitre Pensions, to do the job.
Merger with Grippo cements Simmons' Italian connection
Simmons & Simmons has merged with its long-standing Italian partner, Milan-based firm Grippo e Associati, taking on three new partners as part of the deal. The two firms have operated under the joint banner of Grippo Associati e Simmons & Simmons since a formal association deal was signed in May 1993, and the merger is […]
