His practice covers all aspects of UK employment legislation and day-to-day employment matters, including appointments and terminations, employment status and worker classification issues, employment policies, employee data privacy, disciplinary and grievance issues, and restructuring and redundancy exercises.

Paul advises on the full range of contentious employment matters, including claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract.

As part of his non-contentious work, Paul advises on the employment aspects of all types of corporate transactions, including share sales, business transfers and joint ventures, not least the implications of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE).

Paul has particular experience advising on the handling of employee-related privacy and data protection issues, including in the context of workplace investigations, international data transfers, the implementation of whistleblowing hotlines and subject access rights.

Paul regularly devises and delivers client-training seminars and also speaks on topical employment and data protection law issues at external conferences.

Paul has prior experience working in-house for clients in the information technology and banking sectors.

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• Advising a client in the food industry in respect of a significant asset purchase that involved an extensive TUPE information and consultation exercise concerning more than 1000 employees
• Advising a healthcare sector client in relation to the investigation of whistleblower concerns and related employment matters
• Advising a US healthcare client in respect of the share acquisition of multiple businesses in the UK
• Advising a variety of clients in respect of executive terminations, including pre-termination negotiations and the conclusion of settlement agreements
• Advising a financial services client in successfully resisting a substantial finder’s fee asserted by a recruitment consultancy
• Assisting a recruitment consultancy in effecting a key strategic hire in the face of threatened restrictive covenant injunction proceedings
• Advising a manufacturing client in respect of the reorganisation of its UK business
• Advising various clients on wide-ranging employee data privacy matters, including subject access requests and whistleblowing hotlines

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