Hill Dickinson LLP

Employment

Partner, Head of Commercial Employment - Manchester

I lead Hill Dickinson's Manchester Commercial Employment team.

Prior to Hill Dickinson, I trained at DLA Piper in Leeds, qualifying in 2006, and subsequently worked at Addleshaw Goddard in Manchester.  I have spent considerable time working in-house during a long-term secondment to Barclays Bank Plc, where I performed the role of Legal Counsel within the Bank’s global retail division.

As a specialist employment lawyer, I act for FTSE 100 companies through to owner managed businesses, providing creative business focused solutions to complex people matters.

Whilst my practice spans the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law, my main focus is complex and high-value people matters, including the misuse of confidential information, restrictive covenants, team moves, whistleblowing, change management projects, data protection and significant investigations.

I regularly advise senior executives departing from FCA regulated businesses.

I am regularly instructed in employee competition matters where urgent action is required to protect my clients’ legitimate business interests.

French - basic

The College of Law, Chester

The University of Leeds

Yale College, Wrexham

St David’s High School, Wrexham

Watching football (MUFC and Wrexham), playing squash, trying to keep up with my children.