Kirti Tiwari-Mehta

Senior Counsel

About

Kirti is a senior counsel in the employment group.

With over a decade of experience, she advises on a broad range of employment law issues including complex senior appointments and terminations, corporate transactions, TUPE, restrictive covenants, redundancies and restructurings, discrimination, whistleblowing, contentious matters such as high-value employment tribunal claims and day-to-day HR issues.

Kirti predominantly advises employers and while she advises clients in a broad range of sectors, she has particular experience in advising private equity houses, hedge funds, asset managers and major corporates.

Kirti has a specific interest in private equity, including advising on leaver status issues within carried interest and co-invest arrangements.

Qualified in England and Wales, 2013.

Experience

  • Advising L&G on its merger between the Federated Hermes Property Unit Trust and L&G’s Managed Property Fund, creating a combined fund value of £4.7bn.
  • Advising a venture capital firm in relation to employment and partnership matters, including on-boarding and exiting partners and advising on carry arrangements.
  • Advising Alchemy on the purchase of a stake in the luxury UK hotel and spa group Barons Eden.
  • Advising an FCA regulated private equity house on disciplinary allegations against a senior member of staff.
  • Advising a major hotel group on multiple employment matters including a discrimination claim in the Employment Tribunal and internal disciplinary investigations.
  • Advising PGL on the employment aspects of its acquisition of the business and assets of the Kingswood group out of administration.
  • Advising FTSE250 grocery property investor Supermarket Income REIT on the employment aspects of its internalisation.
  • 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.

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