Francis Keepfer
Managing Senior Associate
Francis advises clients across all areas of both contentious and transactional employment law, but he specialises in providing advice on equality and discrimination law issues, including trans rights, competing protected beliefs, and freedom of speech and academic freedom.
Francis works with multinational clients across a number of sectors, but he has particular experience in manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, hospitality, and higher education.
Francis provides commercial, pragmatic, and tailored advice which strikes a balance between mitigating legal risk, achieving strategic business objectives, and ‘doing the right thing’.
Francis has extensive experience of defending household name employers against a variety of claims in the Employment Tribunal, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, and trade union detriment. Francis is also experienced in advising clients on senior exits, complicated grievance and sickness absence issues, and collective redundancies.
Francis has a particular interest in equality and discrimination law, including advising clients on the drafting and application of their trans right policies, and on how to deal with conflict when two or more employees have competing protected beliefs.
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Bernice Shang
Senior Associate
Bernice specialises in local and international arbitration with a focus on construction and engineering projects, and defending occupational safety and health prosecutions. She is qualified in Hong Kong and Ontario, Canada, and is a fellow of the CIArb and HKIArb.
Brice Bertolotti
Managing Senior Associate, Avocat à la Cour
Brice advises domestic and international clients on private equity transactions, cross-border M&A deals and financing matters across multiple jurisdictions. He has significant experience assisting investment funds, private equity sponsors, financial institutions and corporate groups with acquisitions, disposals, restructurings and strategic investments.
Brian Grierson
Managing Senior Associate
Brian is an experienced commercial litigator with experience of international disputes across a variety of sectors, including real estate, mass claims and group proceedings, and the aviation industry.
Thatishi Moloto
Associate
Thatishi is an admitted Attorney specialising in construction, infrastructure, energy and mining law, with experience advising clients on complex construction and commercial disputes, domestic and international adjudications, arbitrations and litigation under various standard form contracts including FIDIC and JBCC contracts