Advocate Daniel Read > Walkers > St Helier, Jersey > Lawyer Profile
Walkers Offices
PO BOX 72,WALKER HOUSE
28-34 HILL STREET
ST HELIER
JE4 8PN
Jersey
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Advocate Daniel Read
Work Department
Employment
Position
Daniel is a senior counsel in Walkers’ Jersey Employment Law Group who advises organisations and individuals within the financial services sector on exits, disciplinary issues and investigations, and on regulatory matters.
Dan is a Jersey Advocate with experience in Royal Court and Tribunal cases, as well as providing strategic advice on internal investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, whistleblowing and discrimination claims, and M&A as well as restructuring and redundancy exercises.
He advises businesses and senior executives and founders on regulatory matters, partnership and shareholder disputes, and restrictive covenants.
Dan also advises on regulatory issues – including carrying out investigations into regulatory matters, and supporting regulated businesses facing investigations or enforcement action – and works with Insolvency & Dispute Resolution colleagues on fraud and financial crime disputes, in particular injunctions, disclosure orders and tracing of assets.
Career
Prior to joining Walkers, Dan worked for another leading offshore law firm in Jersey in the employment and dispute resolution department. Before that Dan was a barrister at a leading common law set of chambers in London.
Lawyer Rankings
Jersey > Employment
(Next Generation Partners)Financial services clients make up the bulk of Walkers‘ employment practice’s clients, with the firm acting for them on matters ranging from unfair dismissal and breach of covenant claims, to the employment aspects of transactions and restructuring measures. ‘Powerhouse of legal practice’ Daniel Read heads the group, appearing before tribunals on matters arising out of disciplinaries, discrimination and disputes between shareholders. Read is assisted by Katherine Utton, who arrived from Browne Jacobson LLP in November 2023, representing both public and private sector bodies before tribunals across unfair dismissal and whistleblowing claims. Jenny Brunton took up an in house role in July 2023.