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Mills & Reeve LLP Offices

Mills & Reeve LLP
1 St James Court
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NORWICH
NR3 1RU
England
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James Kidd

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01603 693407 [email protected]

Work Department

Employment.

Position

James is an employment lawyer, specialising in TUPE. His work includes supporting our corporate and commercial teams in dealing with mergers and acquisitions work and projects (the largest single corporate deal being a £200m asset acquisition), as well as dealing with large-scale redundancy and reorganisation matters. He also, of course, deals with the usual mix of helpline queries on day-to-day operational matters, together with handling settlement agreements, employment tribunal claims, service agreements, consultancy agreements, complex grievances and disciplinary processes. James has worked extensively with clients in multi-jurisdictional matters, including global outsourcing and exits of senior individuals. He has worked with clients to protect business information when employees leave and secured the necessary protections. He has also supported a number of clients to successfully divest themselves from final salary pension schemes. His work focuses on the commercial sector, particularly in relation to private healthcare and food and beverage.

Career

Trained Gotelee & Goldsmith Solicitors; qualified 1998; regional assistant The Law Society 1993-95; trainee solicitor Gotelee & Goldsmith Solicitors 1996-98; solicitor Gotelee & Goldsmith Solicitors 1998-2000; solicitor and associate Eversheds LLP 2000-09; associate Mills & Reeve LLP 2009-13; partner Mills & Reeve LLP 2013 to date.

Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association.

Education

Newport Free Grammar School, Newport, Essex; De Montfort University (1993 LLB (Hons) Law 2(1)); College of Law (1996 Legal Practice Course (Commendation)); University of East Anglia (2001 Postgraduate Certificate in Employment Law).

Leisure

Reading (generally fiction), writing (always fiction), films, cycling and DIY.

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Employment > Employment

Mills & Reeve LLP‘s national employment group is led by the ‘outstanding‘ David Mills from the Cambridge office, which is also home to key partners Nicola Brown, who focuses on work for national higher education and charity clients, Stuart Craig, who is a key adviser to businesses in the health sector, and Melanie James, who acts for large private employers. James Kidd leads the employment, pensions and immigration practice in the Norwich office, where ‘personable and client-oriented‘ education sector specialist Alex Russell is also a standout practitioner. Russell and principal associate Patrick Gass recently acted for a UK university in a major restructure and collective redundancy exercise involving more than 100 academic and professional services staff.

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