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Alice Townley Smith
Work Department
Principal Associate Alice Townley Smith is a member of the firm's Education employment team and provides advice to its education sector clients. She is based in the Cambridge office. Alice's experience includes advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters for higher and further education institutions, academies and independent schools. In particular, Alice advises both higher and further education clients on strategic issues such as collective redundancies, reorganisations, mergers and joint ventures. Alice also has particular experience in advising on TUPE including outsourcing arrangements and the TUPE implications of conversion to academy status. At present, Alice is assisting a number of independent schools address the difficulties they are facing with the significant rise in employer contributions in respect of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. Alice is also currently the lead advisor on a number of high value and complex employment tribunal claims for higher education institutions.
Position
Principal Associate
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Employment > Employment
The national employment and labour practice at Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
has a hub in Cambridge which is well-equipped to handle local, national and international-level employment matters, ranging advising on restructurings and redundancies to handling litigation. Practice head Simon Tytherleigh
, who ‘listens and delivers’, stands out for his Employment Tribunal work. Key partner Elizabeth Graves advises on employment matters in the life sciences, technology and financial services industries. The ‘very client-friendly‘ Matthew Kelly specialises in advising education sector clients, as does ‘thorough and prompt’ principal associate Alice Townley Smith. Constanze Moorhouse, who handles cross-border matters, is ‘very responsive and provides spot-on advice‘. Legal director Rachel Bennett has numerous clients in the pharmaceutical, transport and water sectors, whilst principal associate Sasha Willmott focuses on life sciences and technology.
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Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Construction
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant