Travers Smith LLP

Pensions

Daniel is a partner with expertise in pensions, governance and DEI. Daniel chairs Travers Smith’s Diversity and Inclusion Board and was our founding CSR Partner. He has been a partner at Travers Smith since 2012. From 2016 until 2023 he served as head of our Pensions practice.

Daniel remains a senior partner in our Pensions team and the Client Relationship Partner for a number of our largest and most high-profile clients. Daniel brings all of this experience to advising the trustees and/or sponsors of some of the UK's largest and most complex pension funds on all legal, regulatory and governance issues which they face, as well as advising a range of others on pensions, governance and diversity, equity and inclusion.

He has been named by Who's Who Legal as a 'Global Elite Thought Leader'. He has been ranked in the top 15 in OUTstanding's top 100 LGBT+ Executives List worldwide (published by the Financial Times) and has been named Mentor of the Year at the British Legal Awards and Leader of the Year at the PMI Pinnacle Awards.

Daniel is also involved in a number of industry groups, including serving on the Governing Council and the Covenant Committee of the Society of Pension Professionals and chairing its diversity, equity and inclusion group  as well as sitting on the Pensions Regulator's Diversity & Inclusion Working Group and the steering group of the Pensions Equity Group.