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Natasha Peacock

Needle Partnership

Natasha has held positions in national law firm Beachcroft LLP as a financial services legal and regulatory consultant and more recently in specialist financial services firm Regulatory Legal Solicitors. She has also held directorships in a number of regulated businesses and worked in various in-house legal, technical and compliance roles in the life, pensions and investment sector.

An experienced and innovative legal and regulatory professional with a broad range of expertise, she is a dynamic project and change manager providing creative, pragmatic solutions to business problems.

Natasha provides advice to firms and individuals regulated by the FCA, PRA and those seeking to understand if they need to be regulated.

In her spare time, Natasha enjoys travel, theatre, arts and crafts and boxing.

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Pension liberation and scams: structures, due diligence, tax penalties and regulatory risks—practical guidance for lawyers, trustees, administrators, advisers and SIPP/SSAS operators
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Pension liberation and scams: structures, due diligence, tax penalties and regulatory risks—practical guidance for lawyers, trustees, administrators, advisers and SIPP/SSAS operators
This Practice Note offers an overview of pension liberation—explaining what it is, why it occurs, the common structures and principal features involved, and the issues each party should weigh in practice. For detailed guidance on the legal aspects arising in this context and related matters, see Practice Note: Pension liberation and pension scams—legal considerations. For further material on arrangements suspected of pension liberation and the steps taken by the Pensions Regulator up to 2018, see Practice Note: Pension liberation—actions taken by the Pensions Regulator until 2018 [Archived]. For further insight into complaints decided by the Pensions Ombudsman concerning transfers of pension funds linked to pension liberation or scams up to 2018, see Practice Note: Pension liberation—key Pensions Ombudsman decisions up to 2018 [Archived]. The rise of pension liberation In essence, a pension is a mechanism through which an individual, or an employer, contributes monies to an invested fund, intended to provide that individual with an income in retirement. Because pensions benefit from generous UK tax treatment, they sit within a detailed and intricate legislative and regulatory regime. Where complexity exists, gaps, loopholes and divergent interpretations will follow, alongside inconsistent readings across the sector and uncertainty for those affected...
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