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Louise Pettit

Professional Support Lawyer

About

Having trained at Burges Salmon and spent a decade advising our pensions clients across the occupational pensions sector (both private and public, DB and DC), Louise moved into a specialist Professional Support Lawyer position within the Pensions & Lifetime Savings team in 2022.

With a keen interest in pensions policy, she keeps the team abreast of developments in the fast-moving pensions industry and writes extensively on legal, regulatory, and policy updates.

Experience

Government consultations: Analysing and responding to Government consultations in respect of developments including the proposed changes to DB surplus provisions.
Policy development: Key role in shaping the team’s response to policy developments, including the Mansion House reforms.
Multi-employer hybrid scheme: Drafting new rules for a multi-employer hybrid scheme with a highly complex historical benefit structure, as part of a larger project to move from final salary benefits to accrual on a CARE basis.
Pension advice: Providing advice on the implications of the amended statutory definition of money purchase benefits for a number of schemes with “non-standard” benefit structures.
Corporate vehicles: Advising on the pensions aspects of setting up corporate vehicles to deliver public sector services and the related transfer of employees from their public sector employers.