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Hannah Taylor

Senior Associate

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About

Hannah is a senior associate in the firm’s Pensions team and advises clients in relation to both public and private sector pension arrangements. She trained with CMS in London and qualified as a solicitor in 2009, before joining Burges Salmon in 2010.

In 2019 Hannah joined the Welsh Government as a Government Lawyer and predominantly advised on the McCloud case. She worked closely with HM Treasury in relation to the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 and drafted various regulations for the firefighters’ schemes in Wales.

She returned to Burges Salmon in 2022, where she advises a wide variety of clients on all aspects of pensions law. She provides clear, straightforward advice to trustees and employers on day-to-day matters, including in relation to benefit changes, GMP equalisation and buy-ins/outs.

Hannah is a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Experience

  • c.£9 billion pension scheme (mirroring the Civil Service Pension Scheme): Advising the scheme manager on day-to-day issues including in relation to equality issues and on amendments required to the scheme rules in different contexts.
  • Large non-departmental public body: Advising in relation to all aspects of its complex pension arrangements.
  • McCloud case: Experience of advising in relation to implementation of McCloud remedy. Drafted prospective remedy regulations for the firefighters’ schemes in Wales.
  • Police and Fire public service schemes: Experience of advising in relation to policies and procedures and drafting statutory instruments.
  • RiverStone Management Pension and Life Assurance Plan: Advising the trustees on a £95 million full buy-in with Standard Life.
  • 6. Trustees of a University pension scheme: Provision of day-to-day advice and drafted new scheme rules as well as numerous deeds of amendment.

Credentials

  • Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2009)

Areas of expertise

Sector focus

Office

“In summary, I just wish that all the legal advisers I have worked with in my 9 years as an independent trustee were as good as Hannah. I have found her to be very responsive, practical and proportionate. Her advice has been clear and unfailingly helpful. When attending trustee meetings, her commentaries are clear and free of jargon. She demonstrates a very good understanding of the scheme rules – not always easy when my calls might relate to one or other of two quite different schemes with live issues!”

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