Michael Tennet QC

Practice Overview

Michael's practice encompasses general commercial/business litigation and advice as well as more specialist work, particularly in the fields of pensions, financial services and life assurance funds. He has a particular knowledge of the work of actuaries, both in relation to pension funds and life assurance funds and is co-author of the chapter on actuaries in Professional Negligence Law and Practice (LLP).

Professional Reputation

Michael is recommended as a 'leading silk' in Chambers & Partners 2009 and The Legal 500, 2009.

Pensions

'Michael Tennet QC has made the leap from revered junior to respected silk with ease.  "Clever, exceptional on his feet and very persuasive", he displays competence on actuarial cases and regularly applied his "excellent mathematical brain" to work for the Pensions Protection Fund and the Pensions Regulator.  He wins the confidence of many as he is "technically rigorous" and also "fantastically approachable" at all times.  Chambers & Partners, 2009.

'Michael Tennet QC is "bright, responsive and a pleasure to deal with", and though "highly regarded for his knowledge of the more arcane aspects of pensions law", "still has a practical bent".' The Legal 500, 2009

Qualifications

Michael obtained a First Class degree in Law from New College, Oxford. He was called in 1985 and made silk in 2006.

Memberships

• Commercial Bar Association.
• Chancery Bar Association.

Publications

Michael co-writes the chapter on actuaries in Professional Negligence Law and Practice (LLP), of which Lord Hoffman is consultant editor. The book was the first publication on this subject. He has also contributed to Ellison's Pensions Law and Practice (Longman) and to Glasson on International Trust Law (Jordan).