Rachel Stevens

Legal Director PSL & Director, Entrust Pension Limited

Gateley Legal

Expertise

Rachel works as a professional support lawyer ensuring that the pensions team is kept up to date with legal and regulatory developments and changes in market practice. 

As part of this role Rachel also manages the firm's pensions know-how, is responsible for writing updates and articles for publication and running internal training.

Prior to working as a professional support lawyer, Rachel gained significant legal and trustee experience on many different occupational pension schemes and encompassing a wide range of pension-related matters. She has worked on issues ranging from sponsoring employers' scheme funding obligations to drafting work consolidating schemes’ deeds and rules and with a particular focus on dispute resolution.

Rachel is a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Rachel is also a director of Entrust Pension Limited, Gateley's independent trustee company, which acts as trustee of both ongoing and winding up occupational pension schemes. 

Experience

  1. Consolidating and updating a pension scheme’s trust deed and rules.
  2. Advising on the closure of a pension scheme to future accrual.