Anne-Marie Winton is a partner at ARC Pensions Law LLP and has many years of experience as a trustee adviser, dealing with day-to-day issues for all sizes of occupational schemes, and also specialises in advising UK and non-UK employers and groups facing challenging situations. Recent work includes successfully seeking Pensions Regulator and Pension Protection Fund (PPF) approval to a regulated apportionment arrangement and managing covenant and hostile funding negotiations (often working closely with forensic accountants). She has also on several occasions been appointed as an additional legal adviser for trustees facing difficulties such as a distressed restructuring, proposed pre-pack or corporate sale.

As a pensions lawyer since the mid-1990s, Winton was originally at Biddle, before becoming a partner at Pinsent Masons and then Nabarro LLP. She is also chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers’ education and seminars committee, and a member of the risk & audit committee of the Pensions Management Institute.