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Gateley Legal Offices
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EDMUND STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B3 2HJ
England
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Merran Sewell
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Merran is a specialist employment lawyer advising on all aspects of the employment relationship. She provides straightforward, practical advice with an emphasis on finding solutions.
Merran supports a range of clients from internationally-headquartered entities, financial institutions and household names to local charitable bodies and senior executives in their personal capacity.
Merran manages the full range of employment tribunal claims and has extensive experience of multi-party litigation. She was instructed by the lead respondent in litigation described by The Guardian as “the largest ever legal claim over the national minimum wage” and regularly represents employers in a range of tribunal claims involving issues such as whistleblowing, constructive unfair dismissal, the adequacy of TUPE information and consultation exercises and discrimination issues. This includes representation before the Employment Appeal Tribunal. She also regularly supports clients with complex disciplinary and grievance issues and change management programmes and the drafting and enforcement of post-termination restrictions.
Merran regularly advises on a variety of corporate transactions and insourcing/ outsourcing exercises which often involve the TUPE Regulations. Recent support included advising Gymshark on the employment-related aspects of the investment by General Atlantic which valued the Gymshark business at over £1bn.
Career
Merran trained at Gateley Plc (then Gateley Wareing LLP) and qualified in 2006. She is a former Chair of the Women in Business Association and a Trustee of Sport Birmingham. Merran was a Finalist for Associate of the Year at the Birmingham Law Society Awards.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association. Member of the ELA’s working party on the Government consultation regarding the “Simplification of the Tax and National Insurance Treatment of Termination Payments”.
Trustee, Birmingham Sport and Physical Activity Trust (‘Sport Birmingham’).
Education
Warwick University (BA Hons (1st class)); Birmingham College of Law (LPC (Distinction)).
Leisure
Football, cinema, travel and good food.
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Employment > Employment
(Next Generation Partners)The ‘professional and practical’ team at Gateley Legal receives plaudits for its ‘solutions focused’ advice. Under the leadership of the ‘commercially minded’ Benedict Gorner, the group receives a steady flow of high-value and complex instructions. It continues to advise on a number of large-scale projects involving proposed site closures and on complex restructuring deals. Merran Sewell regularly supports clients with complex discriminatory and grievance issues and on change management programmes. Senior associate, Joanne Duck, continues to operate across a broad spectrum of industries including logistics, finance, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, construction and education.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners West Midlands > Employment > Employment
- Employment West Midlands > Employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Planning
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Real estate > Construction
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Employment > Employment
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Pensions
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation