Senior Associate

Kirsten Thompson

Languages

English

Kirsten Thompson is a Senior Associate in the Pensions Team. She joined CMS as a trainee solicitor in 2006 and qualified into the pensions team in 2008.

Kirsten advises pension scheme trustees, sponsoring employers and industry providers on the full range of contentious and non-contentious issues, both as a long-term adviser and for discrete transactions. Her clients span a number of sectors including energy, retail and financial institutions. She has considerable experience of de-risking work, representing trustees, employers and insurers.

Relevant experience

Complex scheme merger arrangements involving sectionalisation and de-sectionalisation issues and use of innovative trustee board structures.
Advising on GDPR and associated data breach issues, including preparing clients for quick-response scenarios with targeted training.
Trustee and employer clients in Part 8 applications for directions at the High Court and Court of AppealDispute resolution work including IDRP, Pensions Ombudsman, mediation and Court processes.
Representing Group Trustees for two Groups of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme.
Advising on buy-out of quasi public sector arrangements and multi-billion risk transfer transactions including associated reinsurance arrangements.

Publications

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

Education

2005 – Legal Practice Course, University of the West of England, Bristol
2004 – BA (Hons) Accounting and Law, University of Manchester

Practice Areas

Pensions Environment

Insights

Global Reach

UK Pay Gap Report 2024