Weightmans LLP

Kerry is a highly experienced Legal Director specialising in employment law. Named as a Rising Star in this years’ Legal 500 for being a “key support”, providing advice and assistance that was “excellent, friendly and helpful”, Kerry specialises in disputes concerning employee confidential information and post termination restrictive covenants. She also specialises in supporting the firm’s corporate, commercial and insolvency teams with mergers and acquisitions and matters involving TUPE transfers, both in the public and private sector.

Highlighted experience

Advising on complex executive exits, involving shareholdings and Board appointments; Contract protections and TUPE inform and consult processes in the context of a local authority partnership model where seconded employees are being formally TUPE transferred to our client as the “host” but with a complex split of contractual liability arrangements between the various councils within the partnership; Advice and assistance to Sheffield City Council and Sir Mark Lowcock in setting up the team on an inquiry into the Sheffield Street Trees dispute; Advice to a local authority on outsourcing of home care provisions where there are changes to the provision including the geography boundaries of services and arrangements shifting away from a number of providers to one; Advice on TUPE inform and consult processes (and contract liabilities in the Sale and purchase documentation) on the sale of a business; Advice to a Higher Education provider in respect of the outsourcing of IT services. Advising respondent clients through tribunal processes, including successfully defending an unfair dismissal claim in which costs were awarded against the claimant Advising on a complex transfer of part of a business, involving approximately 1300 employees A High Court claim for a PLC client arising from circa 75 staff moving to a competitor and related confidentiality and other business protection concerns