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Mrs Harender Branch

Work Department

Corporate & Employment

Position

Head of Corporate Commercial Department, dealing with a wide range of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, reorganisations and restructuring, commercial agreements, joint ventures and corporate governance issues. Harender also provides non-contentious employment-related advice.

Harender’s clients are based in the UK and overseas and much of her work has a cross-border element.

Harender’s client base comprises high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, professional partnerships and private and public companies. Her work stretches across a variety of sectors including healthcare, fashion, logistics, media, professional services and real estate.

Harender has been ranked as a leading lawyer in legal directories and prides herself on providing excellent client care.

Career

Qualified as a solicitor at Halliwells LLP in 1999;

Taylor Wessing (Associate) 2000-2003;

Dawsons LLP (now part of Penningtons Manches Cooper) (Associate from 2003-2007, becoming partner in 2007);

Cobbetts LLP (now part of DWF LLP) (Partner and Head of London Corporate Team 2010 – 2012);

Partner at Branch Austin McCormick LLP (formerly LSGA Solicitors/ Branch Austin LLP) from 2012 to date;

Languages

English, French

Education

Education

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham;

University of Manchester (LLB Hons – English Law and French Law);

College of Law, London (Legal Practice Course – Commendation).

Leisure

Family, travel, theatre.