Dawn Heath

Practice Areas

Dawn is a partner in our pensions practice, advising employers, trustees and financial institutions on all aspects of pensions law. She has a particular focus on UK-defined benefit pension schemes and their associated challenges, including:

•the renegotiation of complex funding and security arrangements;

•liability management exercises, including buy-in and buy-out transactions;

•scheme consolidation, including scheme mergers and transfers to master trusts;

•the pensions aspects of corporate and financing transactions, including global transactions;

•pensions issues in distress scenarios, including complex restructurings; and

•pensions disputes, including regulatory action by the Pensions Regulator.

Professional Memberships

Dawn is involved in industry forums seeking to shape the future of pensions law, including being the current chair of the Legislative and Parliamentary Committee of the Association of Pension Lawyers (having served on the committee since 2013).

Publications

Dawn writes and blogs regularly on pensions issues, including on managing pensions risk and proposals for legislative change in Practical Law and on the Freshfields Risk & Compliance Blog.