Lewis Silkin

Employment.

Partner in employment. Particular focus on the technology, financial services and professional services sectors.   

Also has extensive experience of advising on TUPE, outsourcings, high-value

discrimination, equal pay and whistleblowing claims and collective and individual redundancies, as well as cross-border employment matters.

Key matters in the last 12 months include representing a high profile technology company on an employment status dispute before the CAC, defending a large scale equal pay claim in the High Court, and advising an energy trading company on a restructuring and discrimination claim. 

Trained Baker McKenzie; qualified 2003; associate Baker and McKenzie 2003-08; senior associate Baker and McKenzie 2008-12, partner Lewis Silkin 2012 to present. Current directorships: Strategic Society Centre Ltd. Publications of note: Tolley’s Discrimination Handbook (first and second editions).

Employment Lawyers Association; lus Laboris.

Hertford College, University of Oxford (1999 MA PPE, first); College of Law, York (1999 CPE/LPC).

Sports, family.