Complex pension situations require a balanced and robust negotiator with the ability to build a sustainable solution to a long-term problem.

Karina Brookes

EY-Parthenon Partner, Pensions Strategy, Ernst & Young LLP

Dynamic and approachable covenant advisor with a restructuring background, focused on achieving balanced outcomes for multiple stakeholders. Co-founder of Women in Pensions network.

Karina leads EY’s UK Pension Covenant Advisory practice. She has over 15 years’ experience in pension advisory services advising corporates and trustees of some of the UK’s largest pension schemes. This includes scheme funding, restructuring, transactions, apportionments and regulatory issues. She has also spent time seconded to the funding team at the pensions regulator.

How Karina is building a better working world

“I work with corporates and trustees to manage the risk of defined benefit pensions schemes for UK corporates, whilst protecting the position for pension scheme members. This ensures that a significant proportion of UK employees secure their future beyond their working lives and through their retirement, creating a better working world.”

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