Louise Edwards > Wrigleys Solicitors LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
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3rd Floor
3 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
England
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Louise Edwards
Work Department
Pensions
Position
Partner
Career
Louise advises trustees and sponsoring employers of occupational pension schemes on all aspects of pensions law. She has extensive experience advising trustees in connection with buy-in and buy-out liability management exercises and the winding up of both solvent and insolvent pension schemes.
Louise is also responsible for the day-to-day management of the trusteeships held by our pensions trustee company, Wrigleys Pensions Trustees Limited (of which Louise is a director) and is a contributing author for LexisNexis.
Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Louise worked in the pensions industry for a number of years in the areas of administration, consultancy and independent trusteeship.
Louise trained as a solicitor at Wrigleys and qualified in 2009. She was promoted to partner in May 2019 in recognition of her contribution to the team and the firm. This year Louise has taken on the responsibility of becoming joint head of the Pensions team alongside Kate Buckham.
Memberships
Louise is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers, a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (2012) and has corporate membership of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Employment > Pensions
Wrigleys Solicitors LLP employs its expertise in trusts to advise the trustees of small and mid-sized private funds, and is particularly active in the not-for-profit space where the work frequently intersects with the public sector. Kate Buckham co-heads the team in Leeds, working alongside the firm’s charity’s practice to provide comprehensive assistance to non-profit organisations. Co-head Louise Edwards focusses on liability management and the winding up of schemes, while Helen Woodford chairs the team in its expanding public sector work.