Beverly Cox acts for a wide range of pension schemes and advises on all aspects of pension scheme design and management, including drafting rule amendments to implement the increasingly complex benefit structures which schemes can develop over the years. She has particular experience of defined benefit schemes and questions arising from the participation and withdrawal of employers and restructuring of employer groups. She advises pension scheme trustees in relation to proposals for benefit changes by scheme sponsors and scheme funding negotiations. Over recent years, Beverly has provided advice on several bulk transfers of money purchase scheme members to master trusts, and also has experience of advising on scheme wind-ups. She is a member of the cross-departmental team comprising pensions, insurance and finance specialists who work together advising on buy-ins of pensioner and deferred member liabilities, including medically underwritten buy-in

Duncan formerly a partner of Hogan Lovells is a non-executive director at Guiide (the online holistic retirement tool) and a trustee director of Sarcoma UK (the bone and soft tissue cancer charity). A Fellow of the PMI, Duncan also chairs the pensions sub committee at Yateley Industries for the Disabled.

Gareth Davies, Senior Associate, acts for trustees, employers, and financial institutions on all aspects on pensions law. He has strong experience in pension risk transfer, acting for FTSE100 employers, multinationals, and scheme trustees on some of the largest insurance buy-ins in recent years.

Clients turn to Gareth for advice on scheme governance, regulatory change, restructurings, amendments, funding, surplus, and bulk transfers to master trusts. He also has broad transactional experience, advising corporates and private capital providers on the employer covenant aspects of M&A, financings, and other corporate activity.

Before joining Mayer Brown in January 2026, Gareth worked for a “magic circle” law firm in London.

Greg is a senior member of WTW’s specialist pension risk transfer team and is certified by the FCA to provide advice in relation to the purchase of bulk annuities. He has advised on buy-ins and buyouts for a decade, with significant hands-on experience of over 60 projects. This includes transactions for schemes as small as £1m through to over £3bn.

Phil has over 29 years’ pensions experience and co-leads WTW’s specialist Project and Data Solutions team, comprising 85 data specialists and pensions project managers. He provides strategic data advice and sponsors the delivery of major data programmes for clients on de risking journeys, acting as project sponsor for more than 25 programmes, including some of WTW’s largest pension schemes across a wide range of industries.