Taylor Wessing LLP’s team is highly regarded for its pensions fraud work, together with its advising of professional trustees in particular. The firm is also highly reputed for its corporate restructuring work as well as rectification and cases involving the pensions regulator. With experience advising a range of employers and trustees from large companies, public sector bodies, and charities, among other groups, Mark Smith leads the team with his broad experience on both the contentious and non-contentious sides.
Testimonials
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'A very good close team that work closely with client’
‘Mark Smith listens and gives very clear advice.’
‘A relatively small scheme which more than makes up in quality what it may lack in numbers.’
‘Mark Smith is brilliantly hands on and the complete master of all technical aspects of pensions law. Partner engagement to an exceptionally high level.’
Work highlights
- Advised the trustees of a pension scheme operated by an employer in the financial services sector on potential claims against an investment manager for how it responded to the LDI crisis and what that meant for the plan.
- Advised the trustee of a pension scheme operated by employers in the transport and logistics sectors on claims by a former director about his status and other matters. The firm succeeded in having the claims struck out by the Court.
- Advised the trustee of a large pension scheme in connection with a possible use of powers by the Pensions Regulator in relation to the refinancing of an employer group
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Mark Smith