Senior Associate

Elaine He

Languages

English
Mandarin

Elaine is a senior associate in the Pensions Team. After first being called as a lawyer in Canada in 2015, she joined CMS as a trainee solicitor and later qualified into the Pensions team in 2018.

Elaine advises trustees, employers and providers on a range of contentious and non-contentious pension issues. In addition to advising on day-to-day pensions matters, she has experience of benefit restructuring, large-scale scheme mergers and de-risking transactions.

Relevant experience

The £4.7bn all risks buy-out with Rothesay Life, which is the largest ever buy-out of a UK pension scheme.
BT’s Part 8 litigation and judicial review claims in the Court of Appeal.
Trustees on a significant three-way merger project, involving complex funding structures.

Publications

Contributor to the Pensions Law Handbook (16th Edition), Bloomsbury Professional.
Contributor to the Pensions Law Handbook (15th Edition), Bloomsbury Professional.

Memberships & Roles

Qualified Barrister and Solicitor in the Province of British Columbia (Canada)

Education

2016 – LPC/MSc in Law and Business Management, University of Law, London
2013 – LLM, University of Toronto, Toronto
2012 – BA (Hons) in Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Practice Areas

Employment, Labour & Pensions Pensions

Insights

Global Reach

UK Pay Gap Report 2024