My work involves managing a huge range of legal questions for traditional occupational pension schemes and also DC master trusts and pension providers.

I enjoy getting to know my clients and working with them to find practical and commercial solutions to legal problems.  My areas of interest are communicating complex ideas in a simple way, translating scheme documents into specifications that can be used for risk transfer, benefit audit and administration system exercises and helping schemes make their governance efforts meaningful.

I am involved in the industry working group looking at the practical and legal challenges posed by the increase to normal minimum pension age.

Recent experience

• advising on a range of buy-in (with and without residual risks insurance), buy-out and scheme wind ups, including for £1bn+ schemes with complex benefit histories
• working with a client’s brilliant engagement team revamping a range of everyday member communications and website for a complex scheme
• working with a provider client to develop a strategy for a complex restructuring exercise impacting trust-based and contract-based pension schemes
• advising on onboarding strategy and documentation for a DC master trust client winning lots of new business.

Qualified: 2011, England and Wales

Joined Sackers: 2011