Lewis Silkin

Employment

Managing Associate

Carly is a Managing Associate, in the Employment team. She joined Lewis Silkin in 2022, as part of the firm’s Manchester office. Carly specialises in supporting businesses going through corporate restructures, reorganisations and other change projects. She also has a particular focus on trade union and industrial relations issues, senior executive appointments and exits.

Carly has a varied practice which includes advising on a broad range of both contentious and non-contentious matters. Her contentious experience includes acting for employers in relation to complex and high value discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunals and the appellate Courts. Carly has extensive experience advising clients in the transport sector with a particular interest in industrial relations issues including trade union recognition, collective disputes and negotiating changes to terms and conditions.

Her non-contentious work includes providing strategic advice to clients on:

Large-scale business re-organisations involving the application and operation of TUPE. Collective redundancy exercises. Outsourcing and transitional service arrangements. General mergers and acquisitions (acquisition and disposals).

Carly has experience of multi-jurisdictional transactions including international outsourcing projects. She is a member of Lewis Silkin’s specialist TUPE and IR teams.

Carly uses the experience gained during her secondments to clients in the aviation industry to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice. She understand the demands and complexities of being ‘client side’ and the need for concise, solutions focused advice.

Recent experience

Advising a hospitality client on the employment aspects, including the application of TUPE, arising from the disposal of two operational hotels and newly formed joint venture. Advising on the exit of a senior executive of a listed company, balancing the employment risks and strategy with the corporate governance obligations. Advising on the acquisition and merger of a major social media and entertainment company by its main competitor, providing advice on several collective redundancy exercises, TUPE obligations and harmonisation of terms and conditions.