Skip to content

Steven Hull

Partner

Connect with Steven Hull:

Steven is a Partner in the Employment, Labor and Pensions Group in London, specializing in UK pensions law.

He is a UK Pensions lawyer experienced across all types of UK plans, particularly acting for trustees and sponsors of multi-billion defined benefit plans.

 

Before joining Eversheds Sutherland, Steven was head of pensions at a silver circle international law firm.

With over 33 years' experience, Steven is recognized in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 (the leading client guides to law firms) as a leader in his field and is praised for his pragmatic and commercial approach.

Steven advises trustees and employers on all aspects of UK pensions law. Steven's experience includes pension scheme restructurings and mergers, the closure of schemes to the future accrual, changes in benefit structure, deficit reduction strategies, asset-backed funding arrangements, reservoir trusts and escrow accounts, scheme funding negotiations, rectification of incorrect benefits and administrative errors, the pensions aspects of corporate transactions, restructurings, administrations and insolvencies, and funding and moral hazard disputes before the Pensions Regulator.

Recent experience includes:

  • acting for the trustees of a multi £billion pension fund on a day to day basis, including valuation, governance, administration and benefits issues and against a substantial change in employer covenant
  • acting for the sponsor of multiple multi £billion UK defined benefit pension schemes regarding funding negotiations, corporate restructuring, scheme mergers, buy-ins and buy-outs
  • acting for the trustees of a defined benefit pension scheme in a Part III scheme funding dispute before the Pensions Regulator
  • establishing an asset-backed funding arrangement using real estate assets to resolve scheme funding negotiations and in support of an application to the High Court to approve an RPI to CPI change
  • numerous high-profile regulated apportionment arrangements, including Jessops Plc, Reader's Digest, Liberata and Kodak
  • advising trustees of numerous schemes in pursuing and resolving substantial equalization and revaluation claims

Pension Scheme Deficits: Practical Solutions (2006) – Editor

Recognized as a leader in his field in the leading client guide to law firms, Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.

Ranked in Chambers UK 2018, 2019

Steven is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers, the Society of Pension Consultants, is an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute and speaks regularly at pensions industry conferences and seminars.

  • University of Liverpool - LL.B (Hons)
  • College of Law, Chester – Law Society Solicitors’ Final Examination
  • Solicitor 1 September 1989
  • Associate of the Pensions Management Institute 1992
Steven Hull

Partner

Steven Hull

Partner

Email