Mercer expands legal team
UK - William M Mercer has expanded its legal team with the appointment of Gary Crockford as senior legal consultant.
Based in Chichester, he will be responsible for advising clients on all legal aspects of occupational pension provision.
Crockford has spent the last four years at the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority (OPRA) where he was board secretariat lawyer. Before that, from 1990 to 1997, he was head of the legal department at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
By Janet Du Chenne
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