Band 2
Provided by Neil Smith
Neil Smith is a partner in the Pensions team.
He has extensive experience in dealing with all types of pensions issues. His practice encompasses both contentious and non-contentious issues.
On the contentious side he acts for leading actuarial and benefit consultants in pensions professional negligence actions.
He has also acted in a number of the most significant Part 8 pension cases in recent years, including MNRPF and Foster Wheeler.
Neil has significant experience of Pension Ombudsman determinations.
On the non-contentious side, he advises both trustee and corporate clients in relation to benefit restructures, the pensions aspects of mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, employer covenant issues, insolvency issues.
Neil is a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and is on the Pensions Litigation Committee of the Association of Pensions Lawyers. He is a regular speaker and has chaired conferences for CLT, a specialist provider of training for the legal profession, as well as for the Association of Pension Lawyers.
Neil is named as a leading individual in the pensions (and pensions litigation) field in both the Chambers Guide and Legal 500.
Pensions Litigation Committee, Association of Pensions Lawyers
Member, Association of Pensions Lawyers
Contributor to the Pensions Law Handbook (16th Edition), Bloomsbury Professional.
Contributor to the Pensions Law Handbook (15th Edition), Bloomsbury Professional.
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Neil is technically very able and understands what I, as the client want to achieve, almost without me having to tell him. He is very intuitive and thoughtful.
Neil is very experienced and gives strong leadership but in a calm and measured way.
He's enjoyable to work with and he makes what could be stressful situations much more manageable for clients feeling the pressure.
Neil is technically very able and understands what I, as the client want to achieve, almost without me having to tell him. He is very intuitive and thoughtful.
Neil is very experienced and gives strong leadership but in a calm and measured way.
He's enjoyable to work with and he makes what could be stressful situations much more manageable for clients feeling the pressure.