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London EC2R 5BJ

Anne-Marie Winton
Partner
Anne-Marie has many years of experience as a trustee adviser, dealing with day to day issues for all sizes of occupational schemes. She also specialises in advising UK and non-UK employers and groups facing challenging situations.
Recent work includes advising on how to respond to the threat of a Financial Support Direction from the Pensions Regulator, and successfully seeking Pensions Regulator and PPF approval to a regulated apportionment arrangement and managing covenant and funding negotiations in distressed environments (working closely with employer covenant advisers).
Throughout her career, Anne-Marie has also worked with other law firms in jointly advising UK and overseas clients on the pensions-aspects of corporate transactions, frequently project managing multi-disciplinary teams. She has assisted in building new client relationships and cementing existing client relationships by working in partnership with the primary legal advisers. She has also been appointed as an additional legal adviser for trustees facing difficulties such as a distressed restructuring, proposed pre-pack or corporate sale.
Anne-Marie has been a pensions lawyer since the mid-1990s, originally at Biddle, before becoming a partner at Pinsent Masons and then Nabarro.
Anne-Marie is ranked in The Legal 500 UK 2021 as a ‘Leading Individual’ for Pensions (London). She is a member of the Communications Committee of the Association of Pension Lawyers (having also been a member of the Main Committee and chair of the Education Committee for a number of years). She is also on the Risk & Audit Committee of the Pensions Management Institute and the Consultant Editorial Board of LexisPSL (Pensions). She speaks regularly at conferences and is frequently quoted as a legal expert in the pensions industry press.