Michael Cole > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
31 CHERTSEY STREET
GUILDFORD, SURREY
GU1 4HD
England
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Michael Cole
Work Department
Employment, technology.
Position
Partner specialising in contentious and non-contentious employment matters for public and private sector clients; regularly undertakes advocacy in employment tribunals; advises on a wide range of employment issues; bespoke training for staff on employment issues.
Career
Articled Joelson Wilson and Co; qualified 1994; Sydney Mitchell 1994-96; Eversheds 1996-99; Penningtons 1999 to date; partner 2001.
Memberships
Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD).
Education
Bristol Polytechnic (1990 LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford (1991 LSF).
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
(Leading individuals)The team at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP offers ‘an exceptional level of service, is flexible in its approach, down to earth and very approachable’. Recent work has involved advising on flexible working issues and acting for companies, industry associations, charities and UK subsidiaries of overseas companies on corporate transactions as well as bullying, harassment and discrimination claims, claims for statutory rights, reorganisations and outsourcing agreements. Team head Michael Cole is ‘outstanding’ and ‘commercially astute’ and has substantial experience in acting for national and international clients in a range of sectors including the technology and financial services industries. Liz Cardy is well regarded and an ‘astute and tenacious negotiator’, active across contentious and non-contentious employment issues including work involving the education sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Employment
- Leading individuals South East > Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery