Helena Hawthorn

Helena is the General Counsel for the Institutional Retirement. Helena joined L&G in 2016 and has over 20 years’ experience in the retirement sector. She is responsible for all legal oversight of L&G’s institutional retirement business and leads the delivery of all UK pension de-risking transactions to help pension schemes de-risk their obligations and secure their members’ benefits.

She also oversees all of L&G’s global transactional pensions work and cross border transactions including the negotiation of significant longevity and funded reinsurance from the UK and oversaw the legal and regulatory work for the creation of Legal & General Reinsurance Company No.2 Limited. Since 2017 she has also advised the L&G Group on management of its own c£2bn pension schemes. 

Prior to joining L&G, Helena spent 10 years as a solicitor in private practice advising sponsoring employers and trustee boards on their legal and governance obligations in relation to their defined benefit pension schemes. 

Helena is a member of The Law Society and has a degree in History from the University of Oxford.

She is a board member for both Legal & General Reinsurance Company Limited and Legal & General Reinsurance Company No.2 Limited.