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Jeremy Goodwin

Partner
Office Location Head, London Pensions
Senior Office Partner, London

Jeremy is a well-recognized senior pensions lawyer who leads the Eversheds Sutherland London pensions team.

He advises many of our highest-profile pension clients.

Jeremy has led the Eversheds Sutherland London pensions team for over a decade. He is well known for his work across a wide range of pensions law issues. This includes:

  • advising the trustees of some of the UK’s largest DB and DC occupational pension schemes on all pension issues
  • advising multinational employers on all strategic pensions matters
  • advising on the structures and process needed to establish DB master trusts and superfunds

With nearly 15 years of experience working as a pensions partner leading client teams, Jeremy can advise you on the full range of pension issues. 

The Legal 500 2022 refers to Jeremy’s “outstanding work within the DC and DB markets, and innovative work advising on the establishment of a new DB superfund.

Well-known for his ability to make the most complex issues easy to understand and find practical solutions to issues, his experience includes advising on:   

  • all ESG-related matters for pension schemes, including TCFD compliance, the FRC Stewardship Code, and D&I-related matters
  • integrated risk management structures as part of long-term strategic pension planning
  • all types of benefit changes, including scheme closures, changes to future benefit accrual and the introduction of DC sections
  • pension scheme rectification and benefit audits, where legacy benefits are unclear

Jeremy regularly works with industry bodies to address issues with the development of pensions regulation and guidance.

In his spare time, Jeremy plays the trumpet and piano, enjoys watching Harlequins rugby, and loves taking his black Lab out for a run.

Over his career, Jeremy has presented hundreds of times at various public and client conferences and events across the world. 

  • Leading Individual in Legal 500 2022
  • Ranked in Chambers 2022
  • Recognized in The Lawyer magazine “Hot 100” lawyers for his pensions work in 2009
  • Ranked in Chambers UK 2019
  • Rankd in Chambers UK Leading Individual
  • Full Member, Association of Pension Lawyers
  • Sat for over 10 years on committees of the Association of Pension Lawyers, including its Legislative and Parliamentary Committee and Main Committee
  • Member, Pensions Management Institute (PMI)
  • Leads Eversheds Sutherland’s relationship with the CBI
  • Advisory Member, CBI Pensions Panel
  • Advisory Member, 100 Group Pensions Committee
  • Member of the Friends of CDC Group since 2013
  • Member, Ward of Cheap Club
  • Member, Hertford College, Oxford alumni advisory board
  • Elected member of the Eversheds Sutherland Board since 2016  
  • Awarded the PMI Retirement Provision Diploma, July 2005
  • Hertford College, Oxford (MA)(Hons) in Jurisprudence, 1994
  • Christ’s Hospital School, Horsham, 1984-1991
Jeremy Goodwin

Partner

Office Location Head, London Pensions
Senior Office Partner, London

Jeremy Goodwin

Partner

Office Location Head, London Pensions
Senior Office Partner, London

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