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e3 employment law LLP Offices
DELPHIAN HOUSE, RIVERSIDE
NEW BAILEY STREET
MANCHESTER
M3 5FS
England
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Simon Ost
Work Department
Employment
Position
Employment law partner. Former international law firm partner with over 14 years’ experience advising blue-chip corporates on all aspects of employment law. Highly rated by the legal journals for many years. Works with some of the world’s biggest corporate brands. Part of a unique team of talented employment partners who have moved out of large traditional law firms and who now provide equally effective solutions through a more efficient, boutique employment law firm. Advises on all aspects of employment law and industrial relations issues. Best known for resolving highly sensitive employment problems, advising on the strategy and implementation of change programmes (whether large-scale redundancies, restructuring or relocations) and dealing with difficult industrial relations issues. Particular strengths include tactical foresight, legal clarity and commercial commonsense; so that, no matter how complex or difficult the issue, clients have a solution that works both legally and practically. Like each of his talented colleagues at e3, focus is always on achieving the client’s goal and, just as importantly, doing so in the way that the client wants to achieve it (see www.e3employmentlaw.co.uk for further details).
Career
Qualified 2000; Hammonds/Squire Sanders 1998-2013, partner 2005, joint head of Manchester employment department 2011-12; e3 employment law LLP 2012 to date.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers’ Association; Manchester Law Society; CBI.
Education
Kings School School, Chester; University of Durham (1995); College of Law, Chester (1998).
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Employment > Employment
(Leading partners)Boutique firm e3 employment law LLP is praised as ‘an incredibly strong employment law practice delivering commercial and pragmatic advice’, primarily to blue chip clients and global businesses. The group is experienced in a broad range of employment issues, especially those surrounding restructurings, industrial disputes, TUPE transfers, and restrictive covenants. In Liverpool, the group includes Dan Bickerstaffe
, who is praised as ‘very knowledgeable, commercial and a safe pair of hands‘ and is sought after in TUPE matters and large-scale restructurings, and Simon Ost, whose advice is ‘solid, implementable and prompt’. Ost is particularly seasoned in complex restructuring projects and employment litigation involving discrimination and whistleblowing. Nick Jones in Manchester focuses on employment aspects of corporate life, including board level changes, restructurings, and severances.