Matthew is a qualified solicitor who has been a pensions specialist for over 15 years. He has provided trusteeship services through the Trustee Corporation since 2000, and became a director in 2008.

During his time as a professional trustee, Matthew has been involved in a wide range of projects including M&A activity, scheme closures, scheme wind-ups and dealings with the Pensions Regulator. He also chairs ongoing schemes and oversees routine compliance activity.

Matthew holds the PMI Award in Pension Trusteeship and is a regular trainer of other trustees sitting this exam.

Outside of pensions, Matthew is an avid follower of sport (on a partisan basis) and politics (on a non-partisan basis).

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Liz qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and has specialized in pensions law ever since. She has been in the Squire Patton Boggs pensions team since 2004, apart from a 4-year period when she headed up the pensions team at North West firm, Brabners. Liz is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute and co-authored a book on the Pensions Act 2004. In addition to advising employers and trustees on all aspects of pensions law and practice, Liz has been involved with professional trusteeships both here at Squire Patton Boggs and also at her previous firms. Outside of work, Liz has a busy family life, and in any spare time she enjoys gardening and leisurely country walks in the Lake District and the Dales.

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Having successfully led the Squire Patton Boggs Pensions Practice Group for the last six years, Catherine is now renewing her focus on client and trusteeship work. Her particular expertise is in providing advice on all aspects of pensions law, including advice on managing pension risk and developing creative solutions to assist with funding shortfalls.

She deals with pension plan restructuring, governance, and the pensions issues arising on corporate activity. Catherine also specialises in Pension Regulator applications and intervention, pension disputes and negotiating all types of pension fund investment management, custody and other third party agreements.

Catherine is an associate of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), and a former Chairman and committee member of the North East Group of the PMI and the Yorkshire Group of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association. She writes frequently in the local and national press on pension issues, is a regular speaker at pension industry conferences and is a contributor to several pension books and publications. She is a principal author of Squire Patton Boggs’ 2012 and 2013 pension White Papers, “Pensions in the Age of Austerity” and “Shaping the Pensions Landscape for Social Care”. Catherine also sits on the CBI’s pension policy panel.

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Philip has been involved in trusteeship work since the 1990s, originally working on pension plans which had to be wound up following corporate insolvency. More recently he has worked on ongoing plans, including pure DC arrangements, but has particular expertise in plans linked to financially distressed sponsors.

In this context, he has been trustee of plans taken into the PPF via a regulated apportionment arrangement, plans “scheme rescued” out of the PPF and also successfully pursued a regulatory “moral hazard” action against a sponsoring employer’s former owners (which settled confidentially).

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