Shoosmiths LLP

Pensions.

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.

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.

French, German.

Association of Pension Lawyers

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