Employment Team

Andrew Wilkinson

Partner & Head of Inheritance and Trust Disputes

Andrew acts for individuals and charities in resolving disputes regarding wills, trusts, estates and powers of attorney.

Catherine Rustomji

Partner & Head of Charities

Catherine is a specialist charities solicitor who advises charities, not for profit organisations, social enterprises, charity trustees and individuals wishing to establish charities.

Danielle Lister

Partner

Danielle acts for a variety of clients from smaller and mid-sized organisations to large multi-national businesses, working across multiple sectors including manufacturing, facilities management, retail, education, police and armed forces,...

David Browne

Partner

David regularly provides clients with strategic advice on issues such as major restructures; TUPE; and trade union relations. David also undertakes a significant amount of contentious work for both education...

Debra Burton

Partner

Debra has an excellent reputation advising on all areas of contentious trust and probate including will challenges, 1975 Act claims, rectification claims and professional negligence.

Helen Molloy

Partner

Helen also has experience working in-house as group general counsel and HR director at a UK/US engineering group, where she was responsible for global HR and employment matters, commercial contracts...

Jon Heuvel

Partner

Jon is a sought-after and highly experienced employment and discrimination expert, known for his pragmatic and commercial approach. Jon handles both advisory and contentious work across a range of industries...

Matt McDonald

Partner

Matt has over 11 years’ experience of supporting companies with their employment matters, ranging from FTSE 100-listed corporates to smaller, owner-managed businesses and everything in between. Matt has a reputation...

Michael Hibbs

Partner

Mike has a strong reputation for helping employers solve difficult employment problems and make choices based on appropriate risk assessment. His clients include multinational manufacturing and insurance companies, along with...

Nick Jones

Partner

Previously at Lyons Davidson, he brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise specialising in all aspects of employment law including advising employers, business owners and senior executives on...

Philip Pepper

Partner & Head of Commercial, IP & Employment

Phil is head of our Employment and Commercial I/P team. He has established a reputation by advising a variety of organisations from SME’s to multinational companies. Being a specialist employment...

Rhys Wyborn

Partner

Rhys works with clients from a range of sectors and is a trusted adviser to many longstanding clients. Rhys is regularly instructed to deal with complex disciplinary and grievance issues,...

Sandeep Leighs

Partner

Sandeep deals with the array of employment issues from employee relations issues, whistleblowing, redundancies, restructures, TUPE, outsourcing, as well as restrictive covenants, and all tribunal claims. She advises companies from...

Tom Long

Partner

Tom is an experienced employment lawyer and is the firm’s Head of Further Education, leading our relationship with the FE sector. Tom is a trusted day to day advisor to...

Esther Maxwell

Legal Director

Esther appreciates the rapidly changing landscape affecting the education sector and uses her experience to support institutions in getting the best outcomes for their stakeholders. Esther also has considerable experience...

Helen Hughes

Legal Director

Helen advises on all manner of employment issues , with a particular focus on regulatory compliance in terms of National Minimum Wage and gender pay gap issues. Helen has spent...

Sandeep Leighs

Legal Director

Sandeep deals with the array of employment issues from employee relations issues, whistleblowing, redundancies, restructures, TUPE, outsourcing, as well as restrictive covenants, and all tribunal claims. She advises companies from...

Tijen Ahmet

Legal Director & Immigration Specialist

Tijen is widely recognized as an expert in UK business immigration. She represents, businesses, high net worth entrepreneurs with inward investment and helps them navigate through the complexities of the...

Calum Hanrahan

Solicitor

Calum works with UK businesses to offer solutions to immigration related problems including international recruitment and immigration compliance. Calum also has extensive experience of individual, family and private life visa...

Danielle Humphries

Solicitor

Danielle works on a variety of matters including settlement agreements, reviewing policies and procedures and drafting training materials. Danielle also offers assistance with the defence of Employment Tribunal claims and...

Emma Glazzard

Solicitor

Emma has considerable experience working in the schools sector with both independent school clients as well as state funded academies and maintained schools advising on such issues as Teachers’ Pension...

Jesse Tataobuzogwu

Solicitor

Before undertaking his legal training, Jesse initially worked as a HR Adviser and then as a HR Lead for a large national organisation; specialising predominantly in management and employee relations....

Lubna Laheria

Solicitor

Lubna advises a diverse range of employers on issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, termination of employment and TUPE. Lubna also specialises in advising employers on a range of employment tribunal...

Robin Gronbech

Trainee Solicitor

Robin has experience in Employment Tribunal litigation and ACAS conciliation, acting for both employers and individuals. Robin also advises on non-contentious employment matters including furlough, TUPE, and GDPR.

Abigail Halcarz

Associate

Abigail provides advice on all aspects of employment law. Her experience includes redundancy and TUPE advice, employee handbook and contract reviews, advice on cross-border employment, drafting and negotiating settlement agreements...

Cecily Donoghue

Senior Associate

Previously at TLT LLP, Cecily has experience assisting employers, business owners and senior executives on a wide range of employment issues including: Document support – including employment contracts, handbooks and...

Emma Oliver

Associate

Emma has particular expertise in employee relations matters and regularly advises clients on restructures, redundancies, TUPE, capability and disciplinary matters. In addition to this, she assists clients in defending employment...

Ewan Carr

Associate

Ewan has a particular interest in advising on TUPE matters, working alongside other fee earners in relation to the sale and purchase of businesses. He also deals with day-to-day HR...

Gaynor Lanceley

Head of Legacy Administration

A highly experienced Wills, Trusts and Estates solicitor, Gaynor is able to advise charities on all aspects of legacy administration, forecasting, budgeting and training.

Natasha Jasinska

Paralegal

Natasha assists with a variety of matters including preparation of trial bundles, liaising with Counsel, undertaking legal research and supporting with data subject access requests. Natasha is currently studying the...

Oscar Ciaurro

Associate

Oscar has worked with clients across a broad range of sectors, including professional bodies, high street retailers, food and drinks manufacturers, care homes, logistics organisations, education establishments and media and...