Victoria Vallely > Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP > Newcastle upon Tyne, England > Lawyer Profile

Victoria Vallely

+44 191 241 6269 victoriavallely@eversheds.com

Work Department

Victoria is a Senior Associate in our Human Resources Group. She joined Eversheds in 2004 as an employment lawyer. She has experience in advising on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. In particular, her experience of Employment Tribunals has included cases on sex discrimination, disability discrimination, equal pay, unfair dismissal and breach of contract.

Victoria also advises on non-contentious areas including large scale redundancies, TUPE, information and consultation, policy and terms and conditions. She has a particular interest in data protection and privacy issues and has advised extensively on global data protection policies.

Victoria has extensive experience of the financial sector having spent time on secondment at Bank of New York, HSBC and Bank of America. Whilst on secondment, Victoria worked as in-house counsel directly supporting both the business and HR. Her experience involved advising on all day-to-day HR issues such as disciplinary and grievance procedures, executive appointments and terminations, salary and bonus issues. In addition Victoria also advised on M&A and business transfer issues and conducted an audit and review of employment policies

Firm at which trained: Allen & Overy
Degree: MA (Cantab) Law, University of Cambridge

Position

Senior Associate