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Lucy Dunbar

Lucy advises trustees and employers on a wide range of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions issues, with particular experience in benefit change exercises. She has advised on exercises involving closure to future accrual, implementing pensionable pay caps and introducing new benefit structures, including advising employers on contractual changes and consultation exercises. More recently Lucy has also worked with a number of employer clients to implement their auto-enrolment proposals, including enrolment into both occupational and personal pension arrangements. Lucy has helped employers to categorise their workforce, draft employee communications, amend Scheme documentation and negotiate services agreements with outsourced providers. Lucy has been involved in a number of scheme mergers and corporate restructurings and enjoys working with trustees to resolve member disputes and discretionary benefit cases. Lucy takes a keen interest in pension tax issues and advises members of the public on behalf of TPAS. · Sacker & Partners LLP

EnglandPensions, Employee Benefits

About

Pensions lawyer at Sacker & Partners LLP advising trustees and employers on defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, with particular experience in benefit-change exercises, auto-enrolment, scheme mergers and restructurings, and member dispute and discretionary benefit cases. She also advises on pension tax issues and provides advice to members of the public on behalf of TPAS.

Practice areas

PensionsEmployee BenefitsTax

Office

Expertise

Defined Benefit PensionsDefined Contribution PensionsBenefit Change ExercisesAuto-enrolmentScheme Mergers & RestructuringsMember Disputes & Discretionary BenefitsPension TaxTrustee and Employer Advisory

Education

  • MA (Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry), Selwyn College, University of Cambridge (1st class)
  • Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), BPP (London) Law School
  • Legal Practice Course (Distinction), Nottingham Law School

Admissions

  • England & Wales (Qualified 2008)