Sacker & Partners LLP

Senior Partner: David Saunders

Partners: 29

Other Fee Earners: 44

Contacts: David Saunders, Peter Murphy

Firm Details:

Sackers is the UK’s leading law firm for pension scheme trustees, employers, and providers.

Widely viewed as leaders in the field, the firm advises more of the UK’s top 200 pension funds than any other law firm and has been consistently ranked in the top tier for pensions by Chambers for over twenty years.

Sackers has experience of every area of pensions and retirement savings law and regulation. Whether you are a trustee, employer, insurance company, master trust, or personal pension provider, Sackers is committed to helping you solve your legal issues. The firm’s ability to find solutions to the most complex of legal problems, and track record of working on groundbreaking and innovative matters, enables Sackers to deliver outstanding personal partner-led service to all its clients. And the firm’s position at the heart of the industry enables it to keep on top of all the latest developments and evolve its offering to make sure it continues to meet client needs.

Main Areas of Practice:

The firm is entirely devoted to meeting the needs of its pensions clients. Since Sackers was established in 1966, its specialist focus has helped it to build a stellar client list of over 450 occupational pension schemes of all sizes and structures and across all industry sectors. The firm retains key employer appointments on both an advisory and project basis, as well as advising providers, master trusts and IGCs on all aspects of DC pensions.

Whilst other firms have litigators, banking, investment and tax lawyers who ‘do some pensions work’, Sackers has specialist teams who spend all their time on pensions work. Investment lawyers advise on all the key risk transfer solutions including buy-ins, buy-outs and longevity transactions, illiquid assets, DC asset security and fund reviews and the full range of alternative investment structures. They also offer expert advice on the impact of ESG factors in pension scheme investing and managing and reporting climate risks. Pensions litigators advise on the full spectrum of disputes, from member complaints right through to appeal court and regulatory litigation. Banking and finance lawyers advise on a wide range of funding and security structures including contingent assets, guarantees, escrow accounts and asset-backed funding structures.

More information about who we are and what we do can be found at our website www.sackers.com.