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Kelly Thomson
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Partner. Kelly advises on complex international and national employment matters, with particular focus on outsourcing, restructuring and the people aspects of organisational change. She works alongside clients’ HR and Legal teams in developing and implementing strategies for the recruitment, retention and motivation of employees. She has a focus on ’employee engagement’ and is passionate about issues of diversity and inclusion. Kelly develops and provides training and seminars for clients’ HR, legal and business teams and co-delivers RPC’s regular seminars and roundtables on a variety of topics. She is a frequent contributor to practitioner and academic publications.
Kelly was part of the successful RPC team in the UK’s leading case on restrictive covenants –Egon Zehnder v Tillman. This 2019 case is the first time in a century that the highest UK court has considered the issue of non-compete covenants and the judgment sets the law in this area.
Career
Wragge & Co: 2002-2010 (Trainee; Solicitor; Associate); RPC: 2010-present (Senior Associate; Legal Director since 2015); Partner 2020
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association
Education
University of Cambridge, Newnham College, 1998-2001, MA Law (Cantab): First Class (sixth highest in year); awarded 3 Verulam Buildings Prize in Banking Law; College of Law (London), 2001-2002, Legal Practice Course: Distinction
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employers
(Next Generation Partners)RPC‘s London practice head Patrick Brodie is regularly engaged for employment integration, outsourcing and restructuring projects. He also possesses very notable niche expertise, including on the cross-over between employment rights and the engagement of state immunity. A further central part of the team is Kelly Thomson, who handles workplace equality matters as well as post-M&A employment restructuring work. The firm provides assistance to a broad spectrum of clients operating in industries ranging from sport to shipbroking and media to metallurgy.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Customs and excise
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans