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Mark Jenkins is a Partner in the Pensions Team. Mark has extensive experience advising employers and trustees on all aspects of pensions law, encompassing both contentious and non-contentious issues. On the non-contentious side, Mark has a broad practice, including advising on benefit design and restructuring including asset backed funding arrangements, as well as investment issues, with a particular focus on insolvency and restructuring matters. Mark also advises on de-risking activity, including buy-ins and buy-outs and longevity swaps, acting for insurers on transactions as well as advising trustees on de-risking transactions. 

Mark is an experienced litigator, including acting for a leading actuarial and benefit consultant in pensions professional negligence matters, with whom he spent 2017 on secondment as a Senior Litigation Counsel. He has acted in a number of Part 8 pension cases, and also has extensive experience of advising on IDRP and Pensions Ombudsman complaints. 

Relevant experience

  • The Trustees of the Monarch Airlines scheme on the regulated apportionment arrangement and PPF entry.
  • The Trustees of the House of Fraser Pension Scheme on the recent CVA and associated restructuring of the business and subsequent entry of the scheme into a PPF Assessment Period.
  • An insurer on a multi-tranche buy-out on ‘umbrella’ contract terms, including drafting the umbrella contract for the insurer.
  • An employer on an asset backed funding arrangement for two pension schemes, where the asset used in the structure was loan notes.
  • A representative class of employers in the MNRPF v Stena Line Part 8 proceedings.

Publications

Memberships & Roles

  • London Committee of the Pensions Management Institute.
  • Full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Education

  • 2008 – GDL, BPP Law School, London
  • 2004 – B.A., University of Leeds, Leeds
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