Helen Monson is a Senior Employment Lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience advising both individuals and organisations across the full spectrum of employment law matters. She is known for her clear, commercial advice and pragmatic, jargon-free approach — supporting clients through both day-to-day issues and high-stakes strategic challenges.
Helen has worked in the legal profession since 1997 and has held senior roles at a number of leading law firms across London and the Thames Valley. Her client base spans large listed companies, SMEs, charities and senior executives, including professionals in highly regulated industries and senior leaders based in the City.
She advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including redundancies, TUPE transfers, employee exits and employment-related aspects of corporate transactions. Helen also has significant experience in employment-related insolvency work and is adept at handling complex queries where legal and operational considerations intersect.
Helen particularly enjoys working in partnership with employer clients to help shape their team structures, scale their businesses, and manage legal risk with confidence.
She has advised on a wide range of matters — including drafting employment and secondment agreements for a listed company with international operations, and supporting a multinational communications business through a multi-country redundancy and TUPE process.
Her individual advisory work includes discrimination claims — notably involving gender reassignment — and senior-level exits involving complex restrictive covenants, confidentiality concerns and post-termination obligations.
Helen is consistently recognised for her thoughtful, responsive and commercially minded approach. She has been recommended in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Directory and is described by clients as being “quick and responsive” having “excellent client care” and adopting “a highly commercial outlook.”
Whether advising on a complex dispute or providing day-to-day HR support, Helen combines deep expertise with clarity, reliability and a genuine commitment to helping clients move forward with confidence.
