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.