How we can help

Dentons understands what it takes to attract, retain and compensate your talent. From across the street to around the world, our People, Reward and Mobility teams have the depth and breadth of experience to provide thoughtful and practical advice to keep your business moving forward.

Dentons has more than 425 Employment, Immigration, Pensions and Benefits lawyers located in over 100 locations spanning more than 40 countries, who focus their efforts on employment and labour advice and litigation, immigration issues, and pensions and benefits matters. Dentons’ global presence makes the Firm uniquely qualified to provide multinational businesses with a coordinated legal strategy that properly takes into consideration the application of local laws, the local market and the overall corporate culture of the business.

Reward

Our Rewards team understands that Reward is not an area you can just file away under a single area of law, be that employment, pensions or share plans.

We understand that our role is to act for you as a focal point linking together our national and international expertise in pensions, share schemes, trust law, tax and corporate law. Our expert commercial lawyers are experienced in project management and cross team working to provide you with a holistic approach to Reward.

We leverage those skills, Dentons' unmatched reach and our cutting-edge legal tech to make your Rewards offering market leading.

Our Rewards team deal with the gamut of Rewards issues for clients including:

• for employers – advising from set-up and tailoring your offering to your business needs; through transactions issues, amendments, benefit restructuring and expansion as your business grows; all the way to exit and plan termination, providing you with cutting-edge advice on how you can best utilise the UK's many tax-privileged options to provide cost-effective rewards;
• for scheme trustees and fiduciaries – providing advice on the full range of trust, contract, investment and tax issues. We help our clients deal with legal and regulatory change, employer proposals, scheme amendments, trustee risk registers, investment agreements, training and cutting-edge tech tools to make your life easier in supporting your members;
• for intermediaries – providing legal support and commercial nous to ensure that your products are as cutting edge as our legal rewards offering.

Rewards can be a contentious area of law as it includes trust law, fiduciary duties and core financial issues for your staff or members. We have extensive commercial experience in dealing with these matters so as to limit your risk of claims or getting regulatory approvals, and, where an amicable solution is not available, in dealing with cases all the way to the UK Supreme Court.

Insights

Recent developments in the fight against pension scams – developments in artificial intelligence and the forthcoming replacement of Action Fraud with its successor, Report Fraud

May 19, 2025

United Kingdom: Pension scams pose a significant threat to retirement savings, with sophisticated fraudsters constantly evolving their tactics to target vulnerable individuals. This article examines what pension scams are, how they operate, and recent developments aimed at combating them.

The business case for inclusion: capitalising on planned health and disability reforms

May 15, 2025

United Kingdom: As the government reviews support for individuals with ill health or a disability, we explore the potential reforms' implications and opportunities for employers, and outline key steps HR teams can consider now.

UK People, Reward and Mobility Newsletter – April 2025

April 2025

United Kingdom: Each month, we look at some of the key employment, pension and immigration issues affecting our clients' workforces. In this edition, we explore: risky AI systems under the EU AI Act; changes to immigration policy and guidance; and attitudes to "run-on" for defined benefit pension schemes.

View all insights for Pensions Benefits and Executive Compensation in the United Kingdom

News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises CompareTheMarket.com owner on the sale of BGL Insurance to Markerstudy

January 12, 2022

Dentons has advised CompareTheMarket owner BGL Group on the sale of BGL Insurance, a digital distributor of insurance and household financial services, to Markerstudy. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to complete during the first half of 2022.