Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Employment, Pensions and Incentives

Partner

Christine advises on employment law, covering contentious, transactional, and advisory matters.

Christine is a Partner in the firm’s London Employment team, advising on employment law across contentious, transactional, and advisory matters both domestically and in a cross-border context. She has a full-service advisory practice, including guidance on investigations, executive hires and departures, team moves, misuse of confidential information, enforcement of restrictive covenants, conduct and capability issues, as well as drafting bonus arrangements, including within the financial services sector. Christine advises on board-level employment issues and works closely with the firm’s regulatory team on employment aspects of contentious departures.

Christine has handled claims in the Employment Tribunal and High Court, including high-value whistleblowing and discrimination claims and seeking injunctive relief. A significant part of her practice involves advising on high-profile, sensitive matters for clients, particularly investigations related to #metoo issues, bullying, discrimination, harassment, and whistleblowing cases.

On transactional matters, Christine has extensive experience advising on employment aspects of M&A, takeovers, and outsourcings, including transactions in an insolvency context. This includes advising on cross-border transactions and the application of TUPE.

Christine also advises on employment-related data protection and data subject rights, including managing DSARs and interactions with the ICO.

English

Christine is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association.

Christine studied at St Andrews University and graduated in 2001 with a 2:1 (hons) MA in Psychology and then undertook the PgDL and LPC and after her training contract qualified as a lawyer in 2005.