About
Hayley specialises in employment law and heads the firm’s employment group.
Hayley advises employer clients on all types of contentious matters, ranging from advising on sensitive or acrimonious disciplinary or grievance procedures to restrictive covenant and other post termination disputes to litigation in the Employment Tribunal.
On the non-contentious side, she advises employers on their day-to-day employment issues, helping them to resolve difficult workplace situations in a commercially sensitive way. She is also experienced in advising on the employment aspects of all types of corporate transactions and restructurings.
As well as advising corporate employers, Hayley is experienced in advising LLPs and other partnership structures on partnership and quasi employment issues as they affect them and their members or partners.
Qualified in England and Wales, 2001.
Experience
- Representing a large international business in the successful settlement of a substantial constructive dismissal and disability discrimination claim brought against the employer and its CEO personally.
- Advising a private equity firm on the contested terms of departure for a senior executive, in particular as regards his leaver status for the purposes of carried interest and co-investment schemes and associated entitlements.
- Advising a media client on the application of TUPE cross border on winning a substantial services contract.
- Helping a large employer in the media industry to handle a sensitive grievance process involving allegations of sexual harassment against a senior executive combined with related allegations of victimisation and whistleblowing.
- Advising a unionised listed PLC on the application of TUPE in relation to a substantial acquisition as well as consequential redundancies on a collective basis.
- Representing a financial services business in the negotiated exits of a series of senior executives arising as a result of misconduct allegations brought against the backdrop of a regulatory investigation.
- Advising extensively on the enforceability of a complex series of interrelated direct and indirect post termination restrictions contained in employment and related partnership arrangements.