Sacker & Partners LLP

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

• ‘Janet Brown is a gem and has the unique skill of making our trustee board feel relaxed and assured when she gives her advice. Her regular reassurance is so valuable as we grapple with a range of complex topics.’
• ‘Helen Ball's ability to grasp an issue immediately, identify the range of solutions available and navigate a path that kept both trustee and employer content was invaluable on our project.’
• ‘In my opinion, the best pensions team in the UK. Always on point, always accessible and always leading the way. The depth, knowledge and client understanding are world-class.’
• ‘Sacker & Partners LLP is recognised as the go-to legal practice for pensions advice to trustees. Their pension expertise is undoubted, but this combined with the team's pragmatism and approachability sets them apart.’
• ‘An impressively broad range of subject matter experts, who ensure we receive tailored and proportionate approach for specific projects.’
• ‘They are highly responsive and take the time to understand our characteristics and perspective, to provide bespoke advice.’
• ‘Jacqui Reid has been superb at encouraging effective interaction between the industry and regulators. She has played a key role in helping a consensus to develop across many different players and perspectives in terms of how best the industry can implement the regulators' policy intentions.’
• ‘Friendly team, able to take complex matters and support the trustee board members through the detail. All members of the team are strong, collegiate, and readily available.’

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Work highlights

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Leading partners

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Janet Brown

Sacker & Partners LLP

Janet advises both trustees and employers, large and small, of both defined benefit and defined contribution arrangements and governance committees of contract based schemes Her work covers mergers and demergers, corporate transactions and helping both schemes and employers through the increasing complexity of pensions legislation. Janet is the day-to-day partner on a number of large multi-employer schemes across the oil, gas, chemical and university sectors.

Fuat Sami

Sacker & Partners LLP

Partner who advises trustees and employers of pension schemes (big and small) on everyday issues and project work. Fuat's advice routinely includes managing change (whether benefit changes or legislative changes), updating scheme documentation, member communications and advising on the legal aspects of funding issues. He also has particular expertise advising employers on projects.  These range from liability management exercises (such as PIEs and ETVs) to benefit reforms and corporate transactions (M&A activity, TUPE, and public to private outsourcings). He leads the firm’s outsourcing group and is a member of the team that provides transactional support services to other law firms. Recent experience includes advising employers on mitigating the impact of the end of DB contracting out and the forthcoming state benefit changes.

David Saunders

Sacker & Partners LLP

David has experience of a wide range of pension issues advising both employers and trustees. He is the lead partner for a number of the firm’s major defined benefit and defined contribution clients in the financial services, electricity, IT and logistics sectors.  His broad practice encompasses interpretation and application of scheme documentation, mergers and demergers, scheme funding, liability management and generally helping clients to navigate their way through the increasing maze of pension regulation and legislation. His recent work has included advising clients making changes to their pension provision, including closure to future service accrual and bulk transfers of members’ benefits, scheme funding and the Regulator’s new regime. He also frequently advises on the pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations and heads up the team that provides transactional support services to other law firms.

Edward Hayes

Sacker & Partners LLP

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Jacqui Reid

Sacker & Partners LLP

Partner and specialist pensions lawyer with over 15 years’ experience of advising trustees and companies on all aspects of UK pensions law, regulation and industry best practice.  She is a DC specialist but also has a thriving DB practice – her clients include trustees/providers of DB and DC schemes (large and small) and international/FTSE 100 and 250 companies who participate in UK and offshore trust and contract-based arrangements. Jacqui works with a range of occupational and personal pension providers on legal and non-legal DC matters and has a practical appreciation of the key challenges we need to overcome to secure good outcomes for members. She advises independent governance committees (IGC) and chairs provider forums for key industry players which makes her uniquely placed to provide independent ideas and thoughts on issues which span trust and contract pension provision.