Anna Taylor

London UK

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Anna specialises in helping companies, investors, lenders and trustees to find solutions to the legal challenges they face in dealing with UK pension schemes.

Anna regularly advises both trustees and employers on the day-to-day running of schemes, funding arrangements, investments, changes to benefits and member options, scheme mergers, and de-risking solutions such as buy ins and buyouts. Her advice to investors and lenders enables them to manage the risks associated with transacting with companies that operate defined benefit schemes.

Anna aims to work closely with her clients to provide them with pragmatic, clear advice that will help them achieve their goals and to successfully navigate this complex area of law.

CV

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2011 – 2021 Managing Associate and Counsel, Linklaters LLP

2007 – 2009 Associate, Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson

Career

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2011 – 2021 Managing Associate and Counsel, Linklaters LLP

2007 – 2009 Associate, Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson

Education

2001 Admitted as a solicitor, UK

1999 Legal Practice Course, College of Law, London

1998 Diploma in Law, City University, London

Memberships & Associations

Association of Pension Lawyers

Experience

Buy in of c.£900 million of pensioner and deferred liabilities

Advising the trustee of a large defined benefit scheme on insuring its final tranche of liabilities with a UK insurance company.

Anna Taylor

GMP conversion

Advising the trustee of a defined benefit pension scheme on a project to convert "guaranteed minimum pensions" following a Court decision requiring equalisation of GMPs in occupational pension schemes.

Anna Taylor

Disposal of a UK business

Advising the seller of a business on retaining its UK pension scheme, so that the business could be sold free from any historic pension liabilities.

Anna Taylor

Funding solutions

Advising a trustee on the terms of a funding structure to be put in place in order to provide accelerated funding should certain events take place.

Anna Taylor

Buy out and winding up of part of a pension scheme

Advising the trustee of a sectionalised pension scheme on the buy-out of all liabilities of one section with a UK insurer, and the subsequent winding up of the arrangement.

Anna Taylor