Fox & Partners

Lawyer & team quality

Ivor Adair

Ivor has expertise in advising on sensitive and complex conduct and performance investigations, harassment matters and disputes related to senior level exits, particularly in the professional services sector. His role demands a thorough understanding of professional regulation, further strengthened by recent training in financial services and markets regulation, data protection rights and workplace privacy issues.Ivor’s experience includes disputes arising out of breach of contract, including in relation to remuneration (incentive arrangements and good leaver/bad leaver provisions), restrictive covenants and professional negligence claims against firms of solicitors in relation to their employment law advice. He has also advised in arbitration proceedings and cross-border matters.During Ivor’s career he has represented claimants in high-value and complex whistle-blowing claims, discrimination claims, executive work stress claims and TUPE claims. A number of his cases have established legal precedents.

Shoshana Bacall

Shoshana is an experienced and trusted adviser with over 15 years’ specialist experience advising senior executives, C-Suite, employees, partners, board members, directors, HR, employers, professional partnerships, and LLPs on contentious and non-contentious partnership, employment and discrimination law. Shoshana advises across a variety of sectors, including financial services and professional services.Shoshana advises senior executives and partners on high-stakes departures, appointments, and disputes, particularly within the legal, professional and financial services sectors. Her expertise includes termination provisions, redundancies, complex incentive arrangements, share schemes, remuneration structures, and bonus disputes.She has extensive experience in high-value, sensitive matters such as discrimination, whistleblowing, misconduct, and sexual harassment, often involving overlapping regulatory and partnership or employment considerations. She is highly skilled in managing complex internal investigations with significant financial and reputational exposure where outcomes can be career-defining with uncapped financial exposure. Shoshana is known for securing discreet, negotiated resolutions: she helps clients avoid publicity, reputational risk, and the cost of protracted litigation.Where settlement is not possible, Shoshana acts for clients in the High Court, Employment Tribunal, and Employment Appeal Tribunal, as well as in arbitration and mediation, to guide clients seamlessly through the process. She works closely with leading Counsel to deliver a fully integrated and strategic service.Shoshana also advises on new contractual terms, negotiating bespoke employment and partnership arrangements, including equity and incentive structures, and supporting her clients to coordinate a strategic exit from their previous role while carefully navigating restrictive covenants and their ongoing duties.

Nikki Edwards

Nikki Edwards is a partner specialising in litigation and dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on high stakes, sensitive disputes involving a breakdown in business relationships with a particular focus on shareholder disputes, boardroom conflicts, LLP and partnership issues and business fraud.Nikki has extensive experience conducting litigation in the High Court in London, as well as advising on and leading alternative dispute resolution processes. She is particularly well known for her strategic handling of sensitive, high stakes disputes where reputation, governance and ongoing commercial relationships are critical.Her practice centres on advisory work and complex commercial disputes involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, restrictive covenants, unlawful means conspiracy and misuse of confidential information. She regularly advises companies, directors, partners and shareholders on issues of control and governance, management deadlock, unfair prejudice claims and the exit of business owners and senior executives.She is frequently instructed in matters where allegations of misconduct arise alongside regulatory or reputational sensitivity, often within complex multi-party disputes requiring early tactical and commercial judgment.

Caroline Field

Caroline advises employers, firms, senior executives and professional partners on complex and often untested aspects of contentious partnership and employment law, with a focus on the financial and professional services sectors. She has a particular interest in employee and partnership competition matters and has acted on a number of high profile cases shaping the law in this space.Supporting clients to resolve disputes, often concerning rights and obligations on voluntary and involuntary exits and in connection with future plans, is a key part of Caroline’s work. She regularly advises on the strategic handling of performance and misconduct issues, discrimination and whistleblowing complaints (often with potentially significant financial, reputational and regulatory consequences) and employee/partner competition matters. Her experience acting for all sides and background as a dispute resolution lawyer means she is uniquely placed to support all clients in all aspects of contentious employment and partnership practice, including in the High Court, Employment Tribunal, arbitration, expert determination, mediation and negotiation.

Ronnie Fox

Partner at Fox & Partners specialising in Partnership and Employment Law

Dean Fuller

Dean has a wealth of partnership and employment law knowledge having acted in matters involving commercial injunctions, restrictive covenants, team moves, partnership disputes, wrongful dismissal, breach of contract, discrimination and whistleblowing complaints. Dean’s expertise extends to advising on disputes between shareholders, unfair prejudice petitions, derivative claims, directors’ duties and the redemption and purchase of a company’s own shares.Dean has a keen interest in corporate governance and compliance issues and has advised companies, limited partnerships, senior executives and LLP members on their responsibilities under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, the UK Corporate Governance Code, the FCA/PRA Remuneration Codes, the Takeover Code and recommended best practice.

Ivor Gwilliams

Ivor specialises in contentious and non-contentious employment law. Ivor advises employers, professional partnerships and LLPs, senior executives and partners across various sectors.Ivor’s experience includes advising both employers and individuals in contentious and non-contentious aspects of employment and partnership law, ranging from day-to-day employment law advice and support to high value disputes, including in relation to sensitive and time-critical senior executive / investment professional appointments and departures.Ivor has particular expertise in the financial services sector, having recently been a senior counsel at a leading alternative investment firm. As a result, he has particular experience in dealing with individuals leaving and joining hedge funds.Prior to that, Ivor was head of the London employment law practice at a leading US law firm where he acted for a number of financial services businesses including a number of global private equity firms.

Shiv Raja

Shiv is a Senior Associate specialising in employment law and partnership law and advises on a range of contentious and non-contentious workplace issues for senior executives, employers, members and LLPs. Shiv provides clear, commercial and easy-to-understand advice to all his clients. 

Catriona Watt

Catriona Watt specialises in contentious partnership, employment and discrimination law. Catriona advises employers, professional partnerships and LLPs, senior executives and partners across a variety of sectors.Her experience includes advising on sensitive and confidential senior level and C-suite appointments, departures and expulsions. Her matters often involve complex team move situations in which there are usually restrictive covenant, fiduciary duties and potential forfeiture aspects, as well as contentious exits from partnership structures particularly in professional services, financial services and private equity. She is often called upon in time-critical crisis situations to advise on high profile and sensitive issues with potential reputational and regulatory consequences. Where there is a market-sensitive or public interest angle, Catriona works with PR advisers.Catriona works with clients to avoid litigation, but where that is not possible, Catriona draws on her experience in litigating in the Employment Tribunal, High Court and in Arbitration.