Neil Black
Partner, Head of Office, Manchester
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Neil specialises exclusively in employment law and leads the Employment & Incentives team in Manchester.
Kate Dodd
Partner, Head of Employment Plus
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Kate is an employment expert who advises household name employers across the UK. Having extensive experience in a specialist diversity and inclusion role, Kate is particularly known for her specialism in equality and discrimination law.
Susannah Donaldson
Partner
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Susannah is Co-Head of the firm’s global Equality Law practice, working in partnership with our D&I consultancy to deliver tailored ESG solutions. She is known for her work on high profile, multi-strand cases, particularly those involving allegations of discrimination and is regularly instructed to act as an independent investigator in relation to complex workplace disputes.
Jon Fisher
Partner
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Jon is an employment expert specialising in the financial services and retail sectors. He heads up our Trade Union team and also focuses on complex ET litigation, TUPE, reorganisations, National Minimum Wage, executive matters and SMCR. He is Head of the Leeds Employment & Incentives team.
Anthony Hollands
Legal Director
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Anthony is an experienced senior employment lawyer with particular expertise in HR compliance counselling and the transactional aspects of employment law, such as the HR aspects of M&A, private equity transactions, commercial contracts and outsourcings, and real estate transactions.
Deirdre Lynch
Partner
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Deirdre provides focused and practical advice to a broad range of national and multinational employers on contentious and non-contentious employment issues. She has significant experience advising on the diverse and complex employment issues arising in commercial transactions and restructurings.
David Woodhouse
Partner
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David specialises in employment law. He has chaired disciplinary enquiries and arbitrations. He has acted as a judge in the Labour Court. He acts on behalf of clients in a variety of sectors, mainly the mining, banking and retail sectors. He appears and/or represents his clients in various forums, tribunals and courts including the Labour and Labour Appeal Courts, High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court.
Mayumi Soh
Managing Senior Associate
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Mayumi advises a wide range of clients, from start-ups to multinational corporations and sovereign wealth funds on a range of corporate and commercial issues, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, fund raising, equity capital markets, and employment law.