Joanna Chatterton

Employment & HRLaw

Partner

Joanna is head of Fox Williams' employment team and advises both employers and senior executives, mainly in the financial and professional services sectors.

Described as “an excellent lawyer who is very responsive, practical and helpful” Joanna is an experienced employment partner whose clients value her expertise in dealing with tricky employment issues. Her work for employers generally involves matters with strategic implications and sensitive reputational and regulatory concerns. She has extensive experience successfully supporting clients through complex and high value discrimination and whistleblowing claims and is an expert in the interaction between employment law and regulatory law, frequently working closely with our specialist regulatory lawyers.

Joanna’s experience in management at Fox Williams gives her an in-depth understanding of the strategic and business context in the management of employee and partner relations.

She has strong connections with a large number of senior executives and partners whom she has advised on job moves, handling grievances and contentious exits, bringing tribunal claims, managing the regulatory implications of accusations of misconduct and the potential constraints imposed by restrictive covenants.

Joanna is frequently quoted in the press and provides training on employment and regulatory matters for industry bodies.

Parkstone Grammar School; St Hilda’s College, Oxford (Literae Humaniores); University of Central England (CPE and LPC).