Christina Bowyer
Partner
Pensions Solutions
Offering a multi-disciplinary and bespoke approach to helping you achieve your goals.
Our clients are in charge of structuring the service that exactly meets their needs.
We work with trustee boards, HR directors and finance directors to manage pension and reputational risk. We manage multi-billion pound pension arrangements and, providing advice on strategic governance, project management and risk management.
We are independent professional trustees to largescale commercial group life and excepted group life master trusts.
We also review the effectiveness of other trustee boards, relying on the unique expertise we have gained from both managing large-scale pension arrangements and acting as trustees.
Our in-house diversity and inclusion consultancy can help your scheme comply with the UK Pension Regulator’s guidance on equality, diversity and inclusion.
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Our latest work
Our advisers act on domestic projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names in the market. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and industry sectors.
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Trustees of the Vaillant Group Pension Scheme
Worked with Vaillant Group Pension Scheme Trustees and Pensions Manager on governance and scheme management, including drafting minutes, agendas, and updating business plans. Delivered high-quality secretarial services since 2020, ensuring resilience, timely execution, and strategic focus. Supported ESOG/ORA, risk management, policy development, board effectiveness through PMPS’s expertise and governance framework.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised Board of Trustee directors on ensuring comprehensive minutes for Trustee meetings and sub-committees during a busy period for the Plan. Assisted with ad hoc governance queries from the Trustee Board, allowing the Trustee and Pensions Manager to focus on successfully executing a buy-in and GMP equalisation project.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Client confidential
Preparation of the DC Chair’s Statement on behalf of the Trustees of a DC scheme within a pensions trust. Included liaising with key stakeholders to obtain required information, drafting, reviewing and approving wording, ensuring all legislative requirements were met and overall management of the project timeline.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Client confidential
Pinsent Masons Pensions Solutions helped guide the Trustee Board through different transition phases of the pension scheme. From bringing new Trustees up to speed all the way through to wind up. Their co-ordination of the Board and advisers helped assist in the smooth running of the Trustee Board and set an excellent governance standard.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Client confidential
Providing project management services on a large scale legal documentation project for a leading professional services company.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Client confidential
Providing project management services for the transition of third-party administration service providers, including managing and running transition projects, running weekly project meetings with both previous and new administrators, running monthly Trustee sub-committee meetings, managing risk and monitoring handover actions to ensure a smooth transition.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Trustees of the Epson Telford Limited Pension and Life Assurance Scheme
Acted as sole corporate independent trustee to The Epson Telford Limited Pension & Life Assurance Scheme on a £50m full-scheme buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Pension Insurance Corporation Plc
Advising Pensions Insurance Corporation on the negotiation of a series of complex, multi-scheme, multi-section bulk annuity transactions with defined benefit pension schemes, including the Gates Corporation’s Tomkins 2008 Pension Scheme.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Newell Rubbermaid UK Pension Scheme
Advised trustees of Combined Newell and Record Section of the Newell Rubbermaid UK Pension Scheme on a £225m buy-in with Legal & General Assurance Society.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Client confidential
Advised an energy sector client on crisis management throughout the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
Our expertise, at your disposal
With over 490 partners and 3000 people around the world, we are well-placed to support you across a full range of legal and advisory services.
