Rachel Uttley

Expertise

Rachel is a partner and the national head of our market leading pensions team.  Rachel advises FTSE and similar employers and pension scheme trustees on all aspects of occupational and personal pension schemes including pensions issues on corporate transactions and group reorganisations, pension regulatory and governance issues, pension change projects e.g.  closures and benefit change exercises, pensions tax issues, pension funding and advice on pension surplus issues, auto-enrolment issues and pensions disputes.  She advises on pension schemes with assets of between £10 million and £5+ billion.

Rachel has particular expertise in buy-in and buy-out transactions where DB scheme liabilities are passed to an insurer.  She has done over 35 transactions in this space over the last 5 years and advises one of the leading insurers in this market.