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Keystone Law Offices

Keystone Law
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
Visit website 020 3319 3700 0845 458 9398

Emma Clark

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Work Department

Employment: Employers and senior employees

Position

Emma is an employment and partnership lawyer with extensive expertise in employment litigation, corporate transactions and advisory work.

She has advised organisations and senior individuals for over 16 years and works with clients across a range of sectors and jurisdictions (including legal, financial, property, education, advertising and energy).

Her employment specialisms include advising on strategic HR projects, redundancy-related issues, employment contracts and handbooks, sensitive terminations, team moves and restrictive covenants, performance management, unfair dismissals, discrimination law and whistleblowing. She is also an expert in advising on maternity law and family-friendly rights.

Areas of expertise:

  • Strategic advice to overseas companies setting up in the UK
  • Advising SMEs on all areas of employment law
  • Executive and partner appointments including new contract reviews
  • Termination packages, settlement agreements and restrictive covenants
  • Internal HR processes and investigations including disciplinary and grievances
  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Employment law in corporate transactions and TUPE obligations
  • Discrimination and whistleblowing litigation
  • Restructurings
  • Assisting overseas senior executives on all aspects of their moves to UK positions

Career

2018 Keystone Law | Consultant Solicitor
2012 – 2018 Abbiss Cadres LLP | Partner
2009 – 2012 Fox & Partners | Senior Associate
2002 – 2009 Allen & Overy LLP | Associate then Senior Associate
2002 Qualified as a Solicitor

Memberships

Emma is an active member of the Employment Law Association’s training committee.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership

The main contacts within Keystone Law‘s partnership practice include Peter Garry, Clive Howard, and Emma Clark. Garry, who ‘has excellent knowledge of the law, and a high level of commercial awareness,’ is recognised for his extensive expertise in partnership disputes, while Clive Howard is adept in handling whistleblowing, breach of contract, and discrimination claims, as well as profit share disputes and partner moves. Clark, who stands out for her ‘knowledge of partnership and board disputes,’ concentrates on advising on contractual documentation for new joiners, exits, and post-termination restrictions. The team is regularly instructed by professional services businesses including accountancy and law firms.

London > Employment > Employers

Keystone Law has ‘some very strong practitioners’, among them Nicholas Robertson, Angharad Harris and Paul Daniels. It has the capacity to advise both employers and employees on all advisory, transactional and contentious matters, including large scale investigations. The group has advised on a significant number of topical #MeToo harassment related claims, as well as addressing the issues relating to freelancers in the ‘gig economy’. Other members include Emma Clark, Marie van der Zyl, and Rob Eldridge.

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