Helen Powell
PSL Counsel
London
Helen Powell
PSL Counsel
London
Contact Details
Helen combines fee-earning work with a significant role in keeping our award-winning team and its clients on top of constant legal and regulatory change. With career experience in a wide range of scheme advisory and transactional work, including significant involvement in the privatisation of British Rail and in subsequent landmark pensions litigation, Helen brings a constant client focus to her know-how (professional support lawyer ) role.
Helen has a strong reputation for technical pensions expertise and is known for her client-friendly explanations of complex pensions developments, and innovative delivery – from videos describing the auto-enrolment regime to weekly podcast updates about new developments and downloadable screencasts.
Helen also co-ordinates our cross-jurisdiction Global Pensions Practice, which brings together lawyers with pensions expertise from our offices around the world, as well as our cross-practice Pension Risk Group which offers sponsors, trustees and providers a seamless approach to all aspects of de-risking defined benefit pension schemes.
Noteworthy experience includes advising:
- NIE Networks Limited (when not conflicted) and the trustees of the Northern Ireland Electricity Pension Scheme on general pensions advice.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1995
Academic
BA (Hons), University of Cambridge, 1991
Law Society Finals, College of Law of England & Wales, 1993
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Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1995
Academic
BA (Hons), University of Cambridge, 1991
Law Society Finals, College of Law of England & Wales, 1993
Published Work
Contributor (1995) “Freshfields Guide to the Pensions Act 1995” [Tolleys]
