I’m a partner in the employment team where clients value me for my practical, jargon-free advice and responsiveness along with my advanced negotiating skills.
With over 20 years’ City experience, my role includes advising businesses, senior executives and professionals on the full range of employment matters.
I have a particular focus on owner-managed businesses and, as a fluent French speaker, handle many Anglo-French matters.
I am regularly asked to comment on employment matters on radio and in the press.
Areas of expertise:
- Senior executive terminations and boardroom disputes
- Employee/worker/partner status issues
- Settlement agreements
- Discrimination
- Whistleblowing
- Tribunal to Court of Appeal and High Court claims
- Disciplinary and regulatory investigations, defences and breaches (FCA, PRA, NHS, CQC)
- Business reorganisations
- Redundancies
- Relocations
- Cross border issues
Qualifications and memberships
- Admitted as a solicitor in September 1998
- Co-chair of French Chamber of Great Britain’s HR Forum
- Member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association and it’s Legislative and Policy Committee consulted by the government on new legislation
My experience
Successfully represented Michael Wardle in a discrimination and whistleblowing claim against Credit Agricole – the leading Court of Appeal case on career long loss.
Advised a cross border luxury brand on successfully defending unfair dismissal and sex discrimination claims before the English and French employment tribunals.
Successfully negotiated a seven-figure settlement for a founder and owner-managed business leader involving health and age discrimination.
Advised financial services brokerage business on the restructuring and renegotiation of their contractual arrangements to ensure compliance with the IR35 regime
Achieved discreet and negotiated departures of c-suite executives, involving carried interest, complex bonuses, restricted stock units and sweet equity.
Achieved withdrawal of disciplinary allegations and threat of dismissal against an FCA-regulated senior vice president.
How we made a difference
My thinking
Autumn statement 2023: key employment changes
The epidemic of sickness absence
How to deal with the rise of grievances
Can we talk about mental health at work?
Employment law updates – all change from April 2023
The rise in redundancies – what employers need to know
What is the proposed anti-strike bill?
Snow, strikes, how employers can navigate travel disruption
Redundancy – What you need to know as an employee and how to deal with it
Employing people abroad – would an employer of record work for you?
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