Susie Daykin

Susie advises trustees and employers on all matters relating to their pension arrangements. She has advised the trustees of some of the UK's largest pension schemes. Her practice includes advising on a broad range of issues, from funding investment and security, governance and compliance, member issues, benefit changes, scheme restructuring and helping trustees respond to corporate activity (including distress and insolvency). Susie also has significant experience advising trustees and insurers on risk transfer transactions.

Susie is a significant contributor to the wider industry. She is a longstanding member of the Legislative and Parliamentary Committee of the Association of Pension Lawyers and regularly engages with government and regulatory stakeholders in relation to industry developments, most recently in relation to the abolition of the Lifetime Allowance and the new provisions bringing certain pension death benefits within the scope of IHT.

Susie recently spoke at the PMI Defined Benefit Pensions Conference 2026 on the legal and strategic considerations for allocation of pension scheme surpluses.

2026 – Pinsent Masons, Partner

2012-2026 - Travers Smith, Partner

2004-2012 – Travers Smith, Associate and Senior Counsel

2001-2004 – Allen & Overy, Associate

1998 – Qualified – England & Wales

Association of Pension Lawyers

Acting as lead adviser to the trustees of various defined benefit and hybrid pension schemes on all matters relating to their schemes;

Advising on numerous pension derisking transactions for trustees and insurers;

Lead adviser to the trustees of the Lehman Brothers Pension Scheme in relation to the insolvency of the Lehmans estate, including in the groundbreaking litigation to the Supreme Court to establish the scope of the Pension Regulator’s anti-avoidance powers, the settlement reached with the Lehmans estate and the eventual buy-out of members’ benefits in full with Rothesay Life

Merton College, Oxford

BA in Jurisprudence

1997

College of Law, York

Legal Practice Course

1998