Helen Woodford
Helen is a Director in Burges Salmon’s Pensions and Lifetime Savings team, advising clients across the UK from the firm’s Edinburgh office and her Northumberland home base.
She has specialised in pensions law since qualification over two decades ago. Helen recognises pensions issues are complex and constantly evolving, she strives to advise her clients with clarity, in a manner tailored to their specific situation and requirements.
Clients with whom Helen has built longstanding relationships range from employers and pension trustee boards of global corporations with large ongoing defined benefit pension schemes to smaller entities with open or closed defined benefit arrangements and defined contribution occupational schemes or insurer provided pension plans.
Helen’s client base has straddled many sectors including energy, manufacturing, retail, and transport.
However, she has also developed a specialist client base, advising numerous pension trustee boards and employers operating within the charity and not-for-profit sector. Having acted for several years as the chair of a well-known north-east England based charity herself, she understands that pension trustee boards of charity sponsored schemes have unique considerations, despite most of the prevailing legislation being the same for them.