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Safe cultures, safeguarding and child protection

A holistic and human approach to safe cultures, safeguarding and child protection

Safeguarding review services

We tailor our preventative and safeguarding review services to suit your needs and provide comprehensive guidance on how to implement and maintain safe cultures.

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A sensitive and considered process

We are experienced in handling safeguarding issues with sensitivity both with abuse survivors and with people managing allegations and undertaking reviews.

An experienced and multi-disciplinary team

We bring the right team for the work, including experienced lawyers, trained investigative interviewers, counsellors, communications advisors and safeguarding and education experts.

Systemic neglect, sexual harassment and abuse has been recorded at companies, institutions and associations including sports clubs, schools, universities and religious institutions. We offer comprehensive ‘survivor first’ support to organisations seeking to protect children and vulnerable adults in their care. We also offer expert advice on creating and maintaining safe cultures.

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Our latest work

Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.

  • Client confidential

    Conducted several internal investigations concerning sexual or moral harassment allegations within an international agency headquarted in France.

  • Client confidential

    Conducted internal investigations concerning moral harassment allegations within an European company.

  • The City of Edinburgh Council

    Supported Susanne Tanner KC in an independent review of the City of Edinburgh Council’s whistleblowing and organisational culture and processes.

  • Manchester City Football Club Limited

    Acting in conjunction with an independent KC since 2016 on Manchester City Football Club’s inquiry into non-recent child allegations at the club, our team delivered a retrospective review, examining if, and to what extent, the club was used by serial paedophile Barry Bennell to commit acts of child sexual abuse during the 1970s and 80s. The instruction also included a current review of existing safeguarding practices.

Our expertise, at your disposal

With over 490 partners and 3000 people around the world, we are well-placed to support you across a full range of legal and advisory services.

Julian Diaz-Rainey

Partner

Julian is a leading figure in the field of corporate, commercial and sports disputes.

Partner, Head of Office, Paris

Valérie is specialised in all contentious and non-contentious aspects of French employment law and has extensive experience of the legislation surrounding working time and restructuring. She provides pragmatic data analysis for her clients, notably to optimise costs and predict budgets where issues arise regarding working time, variable remuneration, social security charges, mass redundancies or negotiated departures.

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Partner, Head of Employment Plus

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.

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Legal Director

Andrew has a wide range of experience in commercial dispute resolution, including in the fields of litigation, arbitration and various forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, such as mediation.

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Partner

Colin leads the firm’s Regulatory, Insurance & Funds team; he advises corporates and a broad range of financial services businesses on insurance and reinsurance issues, remediation/compensation schemes, contentious regulatory challenges and structuring insurance arrangements in the infrastructure and energy sectors.

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Partner

Tom specialises in corporate criminal defence, the conduct of investigations, and compliance risk management. His specialist legal areas include bribery, fraud, sanctions, export controls, and money laundering. The co-founder of an award winning compliance technology business, Tom regularly supports clients to fulfil their compliance ambitions.

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Managing Senior Associate

Gabrielle is an experienced advisor on commercial and sports disputes.

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Orbital launches Scots Law workflows for Commercial Real Estate following pilot with Pinsent Masons

Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice 

Pinsent Masons advises on £230m plus Penta Real Estate and Staycity Group London aparthotel joint venture

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district. 

Pinsent Masons advises industrial manufacturers PROXMUS and Promus on the sale of their businesses to CGH Group

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised manufacturing companies PROXMUS and Promus on the sale of their businesses to CGH Innovation, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of steel tanks and a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm headquartered in Miami.

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