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Jason Coates
Work Department
Pensions.
Position
Partner
Career
Trained Wragge & Co 1995-97; qualified 1997; assistant solicitor Wragge & Co 1997-2000; managing associate Linklaters 2000-03; partner Wragge & Co 2003; Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, partner, 2014. Regular speaker at conferences/seminars and contributor to journals.
Education
King Edward’s School, Birmingham; Keble College, Oxford (BA Hons First Class Geography); College of Law, York (CPE; LPC).
Leisure
Running, football, travelling.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
(Leading partners)Birmingham-based Elizabeth Gane
leads the non-contentious pensions practice at Gowling WLG, supported by the ‘patient yet determined‘ Jason Coates, who has particular experience in scheme governance issues and complex funding negotiations. The ‘very commercial’ Paul Feathers excels in the pensions risk transfer market, advising on a number of high-value matters. Maddy Frost is a noted contact for trustee clients, and Sara Chambers and Suzanne Mortimer are key names at legal director level and both are notably experienced in risk transfer work.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Pensions (non-contentious) London > Employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Environment
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Real estate > Planning
- Transport > Rail
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Risk advisory > ESG
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport