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Kirsten Thompson

Senior Associate

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Kirsten Thompson

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
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.

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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.
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Publications

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

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

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