Tracey Hemingway > Shoosmiths LLP > Southampton, England > Lawyer Profile

Shoosmiths LLP
RUSSELL HOUSE, 1550 PARKWAY
SOLENT BUSINESS PARK, WHITELEY
WHITELEY
PO15 7AG
England

Work Department

Pensions.

Position

Tracey is a Partner in our pensions team.  She has 24 years experience of advising trustees and employers in relation to their work-based pension schemes.

Tracey’s key areas of expertise include:

  • drafting scheme trust deeds and rules and complex deeds of amendment;
  • advising on scheme rules interpretation;
  • scheme design and benefit changes;
  • scheme mergers and projects;
  • corporate guarantees;
  • employer debts to pension schemes under section 75 Pensions Act 1995, including corporate restructuring, debt triggers and ways of managing the debt, such as flexible apportionment arrangements; and
  • pensions litigation including Court applications and Pensions Ombudsman cases.

Career

Tracey worked at Sacker & Partners, the highly regarded niche pensions law firm in the City of London, for 11 years.  She then joined leading global HR firm, Mercer Limited, in 2006.  At Mercer, Tracey led the Chichester Legal Consulting team and gained the broader experience of working with trustee and company clients as part of a team of pensions advisers, including scheme actuaries and administrators.

Languages

French, German.

Memberships

Association of Pension Lawyers

Education

Oxford University (1989, MA Modern Languages, first class hons); Manchester metropolitan university 1992 CPE and law society finals.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Employment > Pensions

(Leading partners)

Tracey HemingwayShoosmiths LLP

The pensions team at Shoosmiths LLP is well regarded for its wide-ranging expertise in scheme mergers, restructures and closures, buy-in projects, wind-ups, rule amendments and GMP equalisation. The practice has a tripartite leadership under the ‘exceptional’ Heather Chandler, based in Milton Keynes, Suzanne Burrell, based in Thames Valley and described as ‘one of the best’, and Tracey Hemingway, ‘an excellent advisor’, in Solent. The team regularly advises trustees of occupational schemes and provides support to employers regarding defined contribution schemes. The practice also has strength in scheme security agreements and trustee compliance with data legislation, leveraging support from the firm’s wider banking and data protection teams. Associate Sarah Jenkins is ‘technically extremely strong’ and has experience assisting trustees with a multitude of scheme matters.