Employment
The employment team at Keystone Law offers both breadth and depth of experience, with lawyers across many sectors and specialisms, including media, financial services, telecoms, and hotels. Nicholas Robertson regularly advises on litigation and commercial matters, and Angharad Harris is proficient in cases involving reputational risk. Paul Daniels focuses his practice on executive dismissals, contract disputes and discrimination claims. In the last 12 months, the team has gained a number of individuals, namely Natasha Forman, Emma Loveday-Hill, Emily Plosker and Rhodri Thomas.
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Employment: employers and senior executives
Position
Angharad has over 25 years of experience working in a City law firm with 15 years as a partner. She advises on all aspects of employment law across a wide range of industry sectors across both the public and private sectors, acting for individuals and firms.
Her practice is varied and she is particularly experienced at dealing with sensitive strategic employment law issues, including matters that involve reputational risk. This includes dismissals, board-level disputes, negotiating new contracts, employment aspects of commercial transactions, large global reorganisations, collective consultation issues, the Transfer of Undertaking Regulations and outsourcing issues, and employment litigation (including discrimination and whistleblowing, restrictive covenants and bonus issues).
Her work often includes an international element involving corporates in multiple jurisdictions or individual clients with cross-border employment issues. She also advises businesses and individuals in relation to UK immigration matters.
Career
2018 Keystone Law | Consultant Solicitor 1991 - 2018 Watson Farley & Williams | Trainee, Associate, Partner and Head of the Employment Group 1993 Qualified as a Solicitor
Memberships
Angharad is the former Chair of the Employment Law Committee of England & Wales and served on the Committee for a total of nine years. During this time she was actively engaged with key stakeholders on Government policy such as the employment Law Parliamentary Support Group at the House of Commons. Angharad was also one of five members of the Working Party led by Mr Justice Underhill, responsible for carrying out the Fundamental Review of Employment Tribunal Rules that came into effect in 2013.
Member of the Law Society of England & Wales
Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
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‘The internal collaboration was evident when it was needed, whether training our teams or supporting with more specific needs. Alex Carn has always been delightful, efficient and quick to respond, often going above and beyond as well as ensuring any additional responses were vetted before they came to us.’
‘Marie van der Zyl is quick to respond with an array of skills and experience. She also has an army of colleagues with which to confer should a question stray into an area beyond her expertise.’
Key clients
- K11 Concepts Limited
- Sophie Brook
Work highlights
Assisted K11 Concepts Limited with setting up operations in the UK with newly created subsidiaries.