Rosalind Connor
Rosalind has spent two decades advising employers, trustees, administrators and members in relation to the establishment, management and winding up of pension schemes.
Rosalind has particular expertise in dealing with distressed situations, and she was involved in the first apportionment carried out for PPF purposes in a distressed business restructuring. She has advised on many subsequent restructuring and insolvency situations and has co-authored a book, Pensions and Corporate Insolvency: a Practitioner’s Guide (Jordans).
Rosalind also has significant experience in dealing with pensions on transactions, advising trustees, employers, investors and funders on a range of UK and multi-national sales and acquisitions, dealing with issues from multi-national pension schedules to Regulator clearance.
Other areas of expert knowledge include tax planning and structuring relating to pensions, and Rosalind is the pensions contributor to Revenue Law: Principles and Practice (Bloomsbury).
Rosalind trained at the city firm of Gouldens (now part of the international firm Jones Day) and remained there for 16 years, becoming a partner and head of European Employee Benefits. She then became a partner at Taylor Wessing in its Pensions Group, before joining ARC Pensions Law at the beginning of 2016.
Rosalind is the current Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers. She also a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute and sits on the committee of its London Group as Immediate Past Chairman.