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• The team has advised approximately 20 large City businesses on their restructuring and redundancy programmes.
• Many of the severance and employment contract deals that the team has worked on are worth in excess of £1 million.  A number of them have been multi-million deals going up to £25 million and one has been in excess of £50m.
• Acted in one of the largest High Court claims ever brought by an individual against his former employer. 
• The team has a reputation for handling high-profile cases including successfully defending long standing client Chelsea Football Club from claims brought by one of its former directors, Paul Smith.
• Successfully defended claims against a leading insurance firm for sex discrimination, religious discrimination and whistleblowing by a former in-house accountant.  The discrimination claims were also made against the former employee’s manager and the religious discrimination again raised a novel point in that both the line manager and the claimant have the same religion but one was practising and the other not.
• Acting for a former equity partner in relation to a complex disability discrimination claim brought against a Big Four accountancy firm.  The case is high profile, and raises interesting legal points about the responsibilities of a professional services firm to reintegrate a partner who suffers from mental health problems brought about by stress in the workplace.  It also raises some novel points relating to associative discrimination, in particular whether there is a duty to make “reasonable adjustments” on account of care responsibilities for a disabled relative. 
• Advised an AIM listed business on a wide range of employment matters including redundancies, relocations and sensitive terminations of senior staff.  The nature of the client’s business is global; our strong relationships with leading local firms has enabled us to provide a complete service for all their global HR and employment needs.  
• Advised an inter-dealer broker on negotiating seven figure complex remuneration packages for senior brokers, the implementation of a long-term equity incentive plan, the opening of an overseas office and redundancy issues.
• Advised Drivers Jonas LLP, one of the UK’s leading property consultancies with 700 partners and staff based predominantly in the UK on their ground breaking merger with Deloitte.  Due to our role as trusted adviser on HR and employment law issues to the firm, we were asked to act despite the wider transaction being headed by another law firm.  This involved advice not just on the legal technicalities but also guiding the partners through the cultural difficulties the process presented in a professional services firm and advising on balancing these with the need to ensure due process was properly followed.