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Thomas Bates
Senior Associate

Thomas Bates

London, United Kingdom
Languages
  • English

Tom is a senior associate in the Pensions Team. He joined CMS as a trainee solicitor in 2016 before qualifying into the Pensions Team in 2018. 

Tom advises trustees, employers and providers on a range of pensions issues relating to defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. 

Relevant experience

  • The Trustee of the Sanofi Pension Scheme on its GBP 760m buy-in transaction with Legal & General Assurance Society Limited.
  • The Trustee of the DB (UK) Pension Scheme in relation to its GBP 570m pensioner buy-in transaction with Legal & General Assurance Society Limited.
  • Trustees on their obligations in relation to GMP equalisation.
  • The trustees of a large defined benefit scheme on a significant three-way merger project.
  • Bulk transfers of pension liabilities to master trusts (on both the provider side and trustee side).

Publications

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

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers

Education

  • 2016 – LPC/MSc in Law and Business Management, University of Law, London.
  • 2015 – BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, Oxford.
Practice Areas
Employment, Labour & Pensions Pensions

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