Will Sutton
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Pensions
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About
Provided by Will Sutton
Practice Areas
Will’s experience covers the full range of issues that arise in relation to UK-based pension schemes, including advising trustees, sponsoring employers, investors and lenders.
Will advises on the pensions tax regime, age discrimination, funding and investments, scheme mergers, liability management, employer debt, buy ins/buy outs, automatic enrolment, public sector pensions and governance.
Will has been consistently listed in Chambers and the Legal 500 for over a decade and has been described as having “outstanding pensions knowledge” with an ability to “explain technical issues to non-pensions people.” Clients go to him for his “high-quality support” and “clear and concise advice” as well as the fact that he is “personable and proactive” with “an ability to gain the trust of trustees and employers alike”.
Will sits on the UK’s Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Standards Committee and is instrumental in forming wider policy to drive adequate saving for retirement in the UK. As a director of Reed Smith’s independent trustee companies, he also understands pension schemes from a client’s perspective.
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Chambers Review
UK
Will Sutton is experienced in working with UK-based pension schemes and often advises on issues such as pension scheme governance and mergers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Will has provided clear, directional and proportionate advice."
"We rate Will extremely highly. He is highly skilled, knowledgeable and pragmatic in his advice."
"He has broad and practical knowledge and considers legal questions carefully in the wider picture."
"Will is excellent all round, He can respond quickly with tailored advice which is both practical and easy to understand."
"Will has provided clear, directional and proportionate advice."
"We rate Will extremely highly. He is highly skilled, knowledgeable and pragmatic in his advice."
"He has broad and practical knowledge and considers legal questions carefully in the wider picture."
"Will is excellent all round, He can respond quickly with tailored advice which is both practical and easy to understand."