Joanne Boyle > Foot Anstey > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Foot Anstey
2 GLASS WHARF
BRISTOL
BS2 0FR
England

Work Department

Management Training | Employment | Energy & Infrastructure

Position

Joanne is an employment lawyer specialising in providing practical strategic advice and dealing with complex employment tribunal litigation including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing on behalf of large multisite clients. She also has a range of commercial experience, including transactional, strategic and day-to-day human resources support and has developed a niche for delivering management development training programmes in an innovative way.

She advises on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters including advising employers on issues such as complex organisational restructures, enforcement of restrictive covenants in the High Court, corporate support for all aspects of acquisitions and disposals including the effect of TUPE and regularly provides practical advice on redundancy programmes – always taking into account a client’s commercial considerations. Joanne also specialises in providing employment law support in the restructuring and insolvency sphere, working seamlessly with the wider team.

Joanne is regularly called upon by a number of clients considering change management programmes including business reorganisations and bringing about cultural change. Joanne has delivered a number of cultural change programmes, including some around diversity and inclusion, to assist companies to get the best out of their talent and build a more sustainable workforce.

Lawyer Rankings

South West > Employment > Employment: Bristol

Drawing on strong cross-office collaboration, Foot Anstey is reputed for its ‘excellent service‘ and ‘down-to-earth practical advice‘, working with a number of household names on a host of employment mandates. Legal director Joanne Boyle chairs the Bristol practice, where she works with a range of corporate clients on restructuring projects, redundancies, and whistleblowing claims, among other matters. A specialist in employment tribunal litigation, Michael Thomson’s recent engagements include matters for major retailers and aerospace companies, as well as the employment aspects of a number of corporate acquisitions. Angharad Davies – who joined the Bristol team from the Exeter office in August 2022 – is recommended for respondent-side discrimination claims and employment issues in the private equity sector.