Rachel Penny > Carson McDowell > Belfast, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Carson McDowell Offices
MURRAY HOUSE
MURRAY STREET
BELFAST
BT1 6DN
United Kingdom
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Rachel Penny
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Rachel is a partner in the highly regarded employment team at Carson McDowell. Although she practices a broad range of non-contentious and contentious employment law, Rachel’s particular expertise is in providing clients with advice on strategic and advisory employment law matters, including sensitive investigations, executive appointment and termination, outsourcing transactions (particularly those involving the public sector), large scale ‘change management’ and redundancy programmes. Rachel is also known for her work on transactional employment matters, particularly acquisitions involving TUPE and trade union issues.
Career
Trained Linklaters; qualified 2000, joining employment team. Eversheds’ London office employment team 2001; Arthur Cox 2006; Carson McDowell 2009; partner 2013. Has dual qualification and practising certificates in Northern Ireland and England and Wales.
Memberships
Law Society of Northern Ireland; Law Society of England and Wales; Employment Lawyers Group (NI); Employment Lawyers Association (GB).
Education
Wellington College, Belfast; Trinity Hall, Cambridge University (1996 BA 2:1); College of Law York, Legal Practice Course (1997 distinction).
Lawyer Rankings
Northern Ireland > Employment
(Hall of Fame)Carson McDowell‘s team caters to prominent domestic and multinational clients, with experience in the full spectrum of employment law. The group has notable strength in contentious matters, particularly complex workplace investigations. Team lead Orlagh O’Neill
has more than 20 years’ experience in the practice area, and works for a diverse range of public and private sector clients. Rachel Penny, described by clients as being ‘in a league of her own’, is noted for her expertise in TUPE, restructuring, and senior executive recruitment, incentive, and severance arrangements. Sarah Cochrane, who is dual qualified in Northern Ireland and England and Wales, made partner in September 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning and environment