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Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP Offices

1 WOOD STREET
CHEAPSIDE
LONDON
EC2V 7WS
England
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Jeremy Goodwin

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Jeremy specialises in a wide range of pensions law issues, including:
- trustees' responsibilities and duties
- the Regulator's anti-avoidance powers
- pension aspects of both corporate transactions and debt finance
- investment-related matters
- all other matters arising from establishing pension schemes to winding them up.
Jeremy's experience includes advice on:
- various pension scheme mergers
- establishing various final salary, career average revalued earnings, and money purchase pension schemes (including where sectionalised for funding purposes)
- investment management and custody agreements
- the closure of schemes to future accrual and the adoption of money purchase benefits for future service.
Jeremy is a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers, and is on its Legislative and Parliamentary Committee. Jeremy is also a member of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), and was awarded the Retirement Provision Diploma in July 2005. He is a member of the PMI committee responsible for the APMI qualification, and drafts the material for the law module. His articles are regularly published in the pensions press, and he often talks at conferences and seminars.
Position
Partner
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
(Leading individuals)‘Responsive and flexible, and always giving sound and practical advice’, the team at Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP is known for its large private sector scheme and trustee and employer clients, which it advises on the waterfront of pensions issues. The group has experience in fundamental benefits reviews, as well as international pensions-related work, drawing on the firm’s global office network. It is also adept at pensions insurance, advising insurance providers on buy-ins and buy-outs. In September 2021, the team was joined by Michael Jones from Pinsent Masons LLP, adding significant expertise in defined benefit and defined contribution master trusts. Francois Barker
is a veteran of the pensions space, often advising industry bodies on the direction of pensions law and policy. He co-leads the department with Jeremy Goodwin, who is an expert in trustees’ responsibilities and duties. The duo is praise by clients for being ‘approachable, facilitative and helpful‘. Also recommended are Steven Hull , Sarah Swift and Mark Latimour .
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals - London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Pensions (non-contentious) - London > Employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Public sector > Local government
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure