Top pensions panel hire for Morton Fraser team

Scottish legal firm Morton Fraser has been appointed to a new panel to provide legal services in Scotland for the Your Future SIPP, administered by Curtis Banks, one of the UK’S top providers of self-invested personal pensions.

Morton Fraser, which operates throughout the UK from offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow and employs more than 270 people, said the latest appointment also extends to the servicing of some legacy Curtis Banks products.

Fergus Mcdiarmid, partner and property in pensions team lead, said: “Curtis Banks is the largest SIPP provider operating a commercial property portfolio in the UK with a long and successful track record.

“There has been such a growing emphasis on property in pensions legal expertise in the last couple of years. Providers want the specialist expertise, especially those with the biggest and more complex portfolios so that they have certainty in the quality of legal advice provided and can manage the risks associated with large scale property holdings.”