DLA Piper’s Sheffield employment team is led by Clare Gregory and is known for its strength in complex tribunal claims, TUPE matters, and multi-jurisdictional projects. Gregory has particular expertise in collective consultations, discrimination claims, and executive exits. Gurpreet Duhra plays a key role advising on global workforce restructuring, hybrid working arrangements, and diversity and inclusion issues, while Beverley Ensor handles high-value litigation and large-scale change management across multiple sectors. Alexander Drake supports clients with both contentious and advisory work, including handling international compliance issues, contractual matters, and employment training for HR teams.
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Key clients
- All Saints
- Block
- Croda
- Dreams
- Merlin Entertainments
- Mothercare
- Proofpoint
- Puma
- QA
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Reiss
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (aka PlayStation)
- University of Sheffield
- Verizon
- Zendesk
Work highlights
Supported a major international high street brand on an office closure, relocation and wider restructure that fundamentally alters how its UK head office operates.
Acted for a global fashion retailer, conducting an investigation into allegations of malicious behaviour, a toxic working environment, together with complaints of race and disability discrimination made against a range of senior individuals, including C-suite level employees and the HR team.
Acted for a large insurance sector client, drafting and negotiating complex TUPE provisions in relation to an outsourcing with multi-party transferees, staggered transfers and differing levels of indemnity for each transferee.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Clare Gregory
Other key lawyers
Gurpreet Duhra; Beverley Ensor; Alexander Drake