Karen Bates > Foot Anstey > Exeter, England > Lawyer Profile

Foot Anstey
SENATE COURT
SOUTHERNHAY GARDENS
EXETER
EX1 1NT
England

Work Department

Head of Employment | Head of Commercial | Private Equity

Position

Karen is a member of the Firm’s Management Board and is responsible for the leadership of a team of over 45 lawyers within the Firm’s commercial and employment teams.

Karen has been particularly involved in developing the firm’s employment, pensions and business immigration team as a team of advisory specialists within the business group. Karen’s approach is to think about the bigger picture and advise clients on the best way to achieve their goals. Her main experience lies in complex people strategy and HR risk management as well as bespoke advice on the full range of people issues arising in business. This ranges from large scale restructuring and redundancy, TUPE, transactions and workforce integration and high value employment litigation. Karen also often advises clients’ boards on a broad spectrum of business issues.

Lawyer Rankings

South West > Employment > Employment: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall

Foot Anstey‘s well reputed employment practice in the South West utilises a range of experts from across the firm to provide clients with cross-practice assistance; the team is well placed to advise clients on the full spectrum of employment issues, including pensions, immigration, restructuring, redundancies and contractual changes. Karen Bates heads up the practice from the Exeter office, and her experience ranges from large-scale restructuring and redundancy, to high-value employment litigation. Claire Holland is noted for her expertise in advising national and international companies on complex transactions and internal restructuring exercises.