Senior Executives and Partners
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We are trusted to support our clients at the most critical stages of their careers.
Our partner-level team of executive employment and partnership lawyers is one of the largest in the UK, with over 250 years of collective experience gained at leading global and City firms. We draw on this deep expertise to guide our clients strategically and pragmatically towards the best outcomes.
Award-winning service as standard
Our current and former clients are our greatest ambassadors, with most of our senior executive and partner clients coming to us from word-of-mouth recommendations. Often facing highly stressful workplace issues, clients tell us that they appreciate our holistic approach to supporting them.
Since we started our annual client survey in 2018, clients have always rated us at over 9/10 on average when asked how likely they are to recommend us to a friend or colleague, and in November 2024 our Net Promoter Score was +94/100. In 2024, we were also pleased to be recognised as a Legal 500 Leading Firm in Client Satisfaction, placing us in the top 10% of all firms surveyed.
Working for senior executives and partners
Our team of executive employment and partnership lawyers regularly acts for lawyers and financial services professionals as well as C-suite executives, technology sector employees, doctors and academics.
We support clients across all aspects of the workplace lifecycle, from considering potential new roles to negotiating exits.
We have the expertise to advise clients working within a regulatory framework, partners and LLP members and those with complex remuneration packages, including deferred bonuses, long-term incentive plans and equity interests.
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Bespoke, holistic support
We regularly advise and represent clients facing the most complex and career-critical issues, including discrimination and harassment, whistleblowing, and investigations into allegations of misconduct.
We are particularly well-known for supporting professional women facing sex, pregnancy or maternity discrimination and workplace sexual harassment, and often advise our fellow lawyers, and other regulated professionals, on complex workplace issues.
As a certified B Corp law firm with a commitment to positive workplace culture, we understand not only the commercial and cultural context of our clients’ working environments, but also their impact on how people behave and are treated at work. We also appreciate the professional and personal pressures and sometimes profound emotional effects of facing complex legal workplace issues. We support clients with great care, including, where appropriate, a trauma-informed approach.
Every case is unique, and we ensure we understand each client’s priorities and objectives, working together to create a strategy that reflects these. We believe that it is usually in our clients’ best interests to negotiate a swift pragmatic resolution, allowing them to move forward positively, often with financial security and their reputation and relationships intact.
However, when a prolonged internal process is necessary, or litigation in the Employment Tribunal or Courts is appropriate, we are experienced at providing robust representation. In these cases, we aim to empower our clients to navigate challenging situations successfully, providing clear advice on the strengths and risks of their case, likely timescale and costs, and taking account of financial, emotional and career considerations as well as the legal position.
Our services for senior executives and partners
We support clients with a wide range of workplace legal issues:
- We advise senior executives and partners planning their next career move to negotiate their new contracts. Clients are regularly referred to us by headhunters.
- We also support clients to navigate pre- and post-termination obligations to their current employer or firm, including restrictive covenants. We often represent individuals and teams facing allegations of breach of duty in negotiations and, where necessary, litigation.
- We support individuals with concerns about remuneration or changes to their roles and clients bringing workplace grievances, as well as those undergoing health-related, performance or disciplinary processes.
- We regularly advise and represent clients who are the subject of investigations into alleged misconduct.
- We have a strong track record on women's workplace rights, advising and representing clients on issues relating to pregnancy and maternity leave, flexible working, equal pay and discrimination and harassment, including sexual harassment.
- We are also well-known for the quality of our work representing clients challenging discrimination on the grounds of race, age, disability and other protected characteristics.
- We regularly support neurodivergent clients, individuals experiencing mental health challenges and those who have suffered serious personal injury, including psychiatric injury, as a result of treatment at work. We understand the additional difficulties these clients may experience when navigating both internal processes and litigation, and provide them with tailored support.
- We assist clients facing risk of redundancy by supporting them to engage in or challenge the process and/or to negotiate enhanced redundancy packages. We regularly advise on and negotiate the terms and effects of settlement agreements.
- We have experience of helping clients successfully appeal against their dismissal, and regularly advise on unfair and constructive dismissal issues.
- While most negotiations end in an agreed settlement, when necessary we represent clients in bringing Employment Tribunal and/or Court claims, including for unfair and constructive dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing.
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