Irwin Mitchell

Employment.

Partner and head of employment team; also qualified and admitted as a lawyer in Germany and practising as a German lawyer. Assisting businesses from the UK and abroad (medium, large and listed companies, including household names in the UK and from German speaking countries) as well as individuals, usually on board level, with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious English and German employment law. The advice usually involves international and cross border employment issues and often questions of applicable law, as well as state immunity. Specialities: drafting and negotiating contracts of employment and executives’ service agreements and restrictive covenants, termination of employment contracts and service agreements, negotiating settlement agreements, discrimination claims, collective and individual redundancies, business sales and acquisitions (including TUPE transfers). Legal support provided in English or German.

Trained Pritchard Englefield; qualified 1992; solicitor Pritchard Englefield 1991-95; salaried partner Pritchard Englefield 1995-99; equity partner Pritchard Englefield 1999-2013; equity partner Thomas Eggar LLP (following merger of Pritchard Englefield with Thomas Eggar LLP) 2013 to date; chairman British-German Jurists’ Association 2006 to date. Publications of note: Chapter on Company Directors in ‘Vertragshandbuch Geschäftsführer-Vorstand-Aufsichtsrat, Lexis Nexis Deutschland GmbH, 2011.

German.

British-German Jurists’ Association; Employment Lawyers Association; European Employment Lawyers Association; European Lawyers’ Association; Deutscher Anwaltverein; Associate Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein; Arbeitsgemeinschaft internationaler Rechtsverkehr im Deutschen Anwaltverein.

Gymnasium am Waldhof, Bielefeld, Germany; University of Bielefeld, Germany (1986 Law Degree (Distinction) and qualification as German lawyer; 1990 PhD Law (magna cum laude)); College of Law (1992 Law Society Finals First Class Honours); King’s College London (European Young Lawyers scholarship programme).

football and theatre.