Open navigation
Search
Search

Select your region

Languages
  • English

Simon Evans is a Senior Associate in the Pensions Team. As well as day-to-day advice, he has particular experience advising schemes and employers on scheme funding arrangements, distressed employers and GMP equalisation. He also advises on pensions litigation, especially ‘moral hazard’ and funding investigations by the Pensions Regulator and professional negligence claims. His reported cases include Colart [2019] EWHC 3081 (Ch) and BT [2020] EWCA Civ 1.

Simon joined CMS in 2018 after spending over 5 years at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP. He has previously been seconded to the New Airways Pension Scheme, Lloyds Banking Group and the Pension Protection Fund. Simon sits on the Education & Seminars Committee of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Publications

Memberships & Roles

  • Association of Pension Lawyers

Lectures list

  • 2023 - ‘PPF+ and non-eligible schemes: underfunded winding up outside of the PPF’ – APL Annual Conference
  • 2023 - ‘Responsible Investing – ESG and EDI’ – Boal & Co Pensions Governance Conference
  • 2021 -  ‘Recent Judgments: The practical impact on pension schemes’, Society of Pensions Professionals Conference 
  • 2018 - ‘A new dawn in DB regulation’, Association of Pension Lawyers Summer Conference 

Education

  • 2010 - LLM, Birkbeck College, University of London, London
  • 2007 - LLM, University College London, London
  • 2006 - BVC, Inns of Court School of Law, London
  • 2005 - LLB, University of Sheffield, Sheffield

Insights by Simon

CMS launches 16th edition of the Pensions Law Handbook

09 Oct 2023 2 min read

CMS Pensions Investment and Risk Briefing

08 Aug 2023 1 min read

Tune into the latest ‘CMS Pensions LawCast’ episode #47 – DB Funding Code

20 Apr 2023 1 min read

CMS Specialist Counsel: Pensions Regulator Investigations

28 Mar 2023 1 min read
Back to top Back to top
You will now find all Law-Now content on CMS.law