Rena Magdani > Freeths LLP > Leicester, England > Lawyer Profile
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Rena Magdani
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Rena is a Partner and Head of the Employment team in Leicester. She deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law for public and private sector clients. She has particular experience of representing clients at employment tribunals, advising on business reorganisations, redundancies, discrimination, unfair dismissal, TUPE regulations, providing strategic HR advice and bespoke training. Rena is recognised as a leader in the field of employment by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
Career
Qualified 1996; Edge Ellison (now Squire Patton Boggs) 1996-2000; Browne Jacobson 2000-06; joined Freeths 2006, partner 2008 to date.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association.
Education
Leicester University (LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford (LPC).
Leisure
Travel; tennis; reading; family.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Employment > Employment
(Leading individuals)Freeths LLP‘s Midlands practice has a solid reputation for handling employment tribunal cases, and has recently seen a significant increase in claims. Rena Magdani leads the firm’s national head of employment, pensions and immigration; she works with David Potter
and firm chair Julian Middleton, supporting clients with restructures, strategic employment advice and TUPE, with additional expertise in relation to the ‘gig economy’ and employment status issues. Magdani also has extensive experience representing employers in claims involving equal pay, discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal. Matt McBride and legal director Fiona Powell also specialise in TUPE and all aspects of disciplinary and grievance processes.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate