Karen Bates > Foot Anstey > Exeter, England > Lawyer Profile
Foot Anstey Offices
SENATE COURT
SOUTHERNHAY GARDENS
EXETER
EX1 1NT
England
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Karen Bates
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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Employment > Employment: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Commercial property: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Real estate > Commercial property: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Real estate > Construction
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Public sector > Local government
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Bristol
- Real estate > Commercial property: Bristol
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Real estate > Environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol