Rachel Harrap

Employment.

Rachel a consultant in the Employment Team. She qualified as a Solicitor in 1980 and spent 7 years as an Assistant Solicitor with Wilde Sapte and Simmons & Simmons before joining Fox & Gibbons where she was made a Partner in 1989. At Fox & Gibbons, Rachel was head of Employment and Insolvency services. Rachel joined Edwin Coe as a Partner in 1998.

Rachel’s clients include international public and private companies, charitable organisations, senior executives and insolvency practitioners. Working in close connection with the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Team, Rachel advises on employee issues arising from mergers and acquisitions and corporate re-organisations. Rachel also works with insolvency practitioners providing advice on dealing with employees of insolvent companies. Rachel represents clients in Employment Tribunals in respect of statutory and breach of contract claims and in the High Court dealing particularly with the enforcement of post-termination and confidentiality obligations.

Rachel advises a diverse group of employers, large and small, on restructuring, outsourcing and supports the Corporate Team on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, to acting for both employers and senior executives in all types of Tribunal Claims (particularly whistleblowing claims) to High Court actions, dealing with breaches of fiduciary duties, shareholder disputes, enforcement of restrictive covenants and bonus claims. She also advise on partnership disputes.

Harrogate Ladies College; Leeds University (LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford.