About

I am a Senior Associate in the Employment team with over five years' experience guiding clients through testing times at work. I have specific experience and interest in advising senior executives within the financial and professional services sectors. This can bring me right to the heart of a dispute through litigating in the Employment Tribunal, but just as often involves working behind the scenes to negotiate settlements which enable clients to put a contentious situation behind them.

I advise and support individuals through all stages of the cycle of their employment, from reviewing contractual documents at the outset of an exciting new engagement, to handling sensitive disciplinary and grievance situations and, of course, exits when it's time to move on.

My work also includes advising employer clients on the management of day-to-day employment issues.

I am an active member of the Industrial Law Society, in addition to the Employment Lawyers Association.

Outside of work, I am a primary school governor and a listening volunteer at the LGBT+ charity, Switchboard.

Experience

Support for senior executives

  • Drafting, reviewing and advising on employment contracts, service agreements and settlement agreements, which often include valuable and complex incentive arrangements
  • Shepherding clients through challenging grievance and disciplinary processes
  • Negotiating confidential exits for clients in tough situations
  • Working across a variety of sectors, recently including for clients in financial services, professional services, media & entertainment and advertising & marketing

LLPs and partnerships

  • Advising partners and LLP members on remuneration issues, including complex carry arrangements in the Private Equity sphere
  • Negotiating partner exits from both sides of the table, bringing specialist knowledge and experience of the law firm context

Employment litigation

  • Litigating high value cases in the Employment Tribunal - often involving issues of discrimination and whistleblowing
  • Representing clients during mediations to secure favourable, bespoke, negotiated deals
  • Navigating litigation in the High Court over restrictive covenant disputes and fraught business protection matters

Testimonials

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"Eleanor is knowledgeable, meticulous, responsive and friendly, with the interest of her clients at heart."
Chambers & Partners
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