Since founding Arc in 2015 her work has focused on various stages of the journey to settlement including benefit specifications and audits, “know your scheme” documentation projects, data cleansing, benefit corrections and remedial action, GMP equalisation and conversion, liability management, bulk purchase annuity transactions, other insurance risk transfer (including residual risk, PTL and run-on), buyout (individual annuitisation), funding agreements, winding-up including preparing, managing and completing the process, trustee protection and use and return of surplus.

Anna started in pensions in 1984 and has helped clients work through all the significant pensions legal and regulatory developments as they have unfolded over the last four decades. Anna also has experience with many scheme mergers, demergers, and the pensions aspects of corporate transactions at UK and international levels.

In addition to advising on technical legal issues, she has wide experience of member communications, resolving disputes and scheme documentation, including obtaining a Plain English crystal mark for a Trust Deed and Rules. Anna is a Fellow and former Councilmember of the Pensions Management Institute, and was the Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers from 2013 to November 2015. More recently she has been actively involved with Pensions UK as a member of its Defined Benefit Committee, and with PASA as a member of its Trustee Education Focus Group. She is a regular public speaker and author of articles on pensions subjects.

Anna is ranked in Band 1 in Chambers UK 2025 Guide for Pensions and is listed in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame for Pensions (non-contentious).