Farrer & Co

Employment

Alice is a Partner in Farrer & Co’s Employment Team. She is an experienced employment lawyer, advising both organisations and senior executives on complex employment, partnership and regulatory issues. Alice frequently advises on employee competition matters, including confidential information and post-termination restraints in the context of team moves.

Alice advises C-suite executives, senior employees and partners on all employment and partnership matters including: negotiating complex joining arrangements and departures including the implications for equity and incentive awards, particularly in the private equity context; advising those subject to misconduct investigations, often with regulatory considerations; advising on high value discrimination and whistleblowing complaints and on disputes concerning the enforceability of restrictive covenants.

Alice represents employers in a range of sectors including insurance, financial services, corporate, legal, and education. She advises on the full range of employment issues, including complex restructuring exercises, workplace investigations (including those with regulatory implications), TUPE, negotiating employee entrances and exits, and advising on the drafting of and enforcement of restrictive covenants.

Alice has extensive litigation experience when advising both senior executive and employers, and is adept at handling and defending complex and high-value discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Alice also has substantial experience in High Court and Court of Appeal litigation, including on employee competition matters.

Alice also has an extensive practice in the education sector and regularly advises schools on safeguarding issues, pupil-related matters, special educational needs, the full range of Equality Act 2010 issues, parental complaints and complex investigations (including staff misconduct matters involving DBS and TRA referrals and hearings), alongside her employment work for schools.

Alice joined Farrer & Co as a trainee solicitor in 2012 and qualified into the firm’s Employment team in 2014. Alice was promoted to Partner in May 2023.

Alice is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) Training Committee, regularly Chairing and speaking at events. She is also a member of the International Forum of Senior Executive Advisers (IFSEA), the Industrial Law Society (ILS) and the Association of Partnership Practitioners (APP).

Worcester College, University of Oxford – MA Law (Jurisprudence); BPP Law School, London – Legal Practice Course (LPC).