Adam Murdoch
Legal Director
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Amara Ahmad
Senior Associate
Andrew Campbell
Andrew is a partner specialising in pensions law who advises corporates and trustees on the full range of pensions issues across advisory, transactional and contentious matters. He has developed a practice focused on assisting sponsors of DB schemes in managing the legal and regulatory risks associated with these arrangements through scheme closures, benefit redesign proposals (such as limiting pensionable pay increases), the associated employment and consultation aspects of these changes and other liability management exercises.
Alongside this, andy has considerable experience in assisting clients with the growth of defined contribution (DC) arrangements, such as the introduction of mastertrusts, pensions governance vehicles, and life assurance schemes as well as helping clients comply with recent changes to the pensions tax regime and the introduction of pensions auto-enrolment. Recent work :-
Advising a UK infrastructure company on changes to its defined benefit pension arrangement, including the introduction of a variable accrual rate for future service under the scheme.
Providing advice on the pensions aspects of a retail acquisition, including subsequent advice on options for restructuring the company’s pension arrangements and potential PPF entry.
Advising a sponsoring employer on reducing its pension costs through making changes to commutation and early retirement factors under its defined benefit pension plan.
Advising the pension trustees of a UK subsidiary on the impact on employer covenant and provision of appropriate mitigation, following the spin-off of the UK business to the U.S.
Providing advice to a UK leisure company on the entering into of a flexible apportionment arrangement and Pensions Regulator clearance application following the sale of the sponsoring employer, as well as providing advice on the subsequent insurance buy-out of the pension scheme.
Anita de Atouguia
Partner and Head of Business Immigration
Charles Herbert
Partner & Head of Team
Charlie leads the firm's Regulatory and Financial Services Disputes practice. He joined Doyle Clayton to set up the team having worked as legal counsel in the Enforcement and Litigation Division at the Bank of England. Prior to that, he was a senior solicitor in the Contentious Regulatory and Litigation Teams at Santander UK plc and in the litigation team of a leading national law firm, where he also undertook a secondment in the Barclays Litigation team.
Dan Begbie-Clench
Partner, specialist in employment law. Dan advises companies and senior executives on the full range of employment law issues. His clients include financial services, pharmaceutical, media, tech and fashion companies. He regularly advises on enforcing post-termination restrictions, preventing employees from using confidential information, strategic employment law issues and reorganisations.
Recently work includes successfully defended a household-name Plc and an international insurance broker in whistleblowing claims brought by overseas employees, and have enforced restrictive covenants in the High Court against former employees.
Dan takes a lead role in Doyle Clayton’s founding membership of ELLINT, the network of specialist European employment law firms. Many of his clients are international and he will regularly work on cross-border matters.
Helen Brooks
Helen is a partner in the City office, specialising in employment law. She is a Tribunal specialist and has particular expertise in business reorganisations (TUPE and redundancy), business protection (confidentiality and restrictive covenants) and all aspects of discrimination and whistleblowing. She also advises senior executives at the start and/or end of their employment/partnership arrangements. Over recent years, Helen’s employer clients have included Sports Direct, Atos, Arqiva, Arab National Bank, Shawbrook Bank, US Embassy, various asset management and private wealth organisations, tech start-ups and some charitable/not for profit entities such as National Army Museum and Quit.
James Saddler
Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/james-saddler/
Karen Holden
Partner
Kate Kapp
Partner and Head of Thames Valley Office
Liz Barton
Partner & Head of Team
Liz is a highly experienced lawyer advising companies and individuals on all aspects of corporate law, from advising on company constitutions and corporate governance matters, to group reorganisations and share and business disposals and acquisitions.
Malini Skandachanmugarasan
Partner
Mike Hibberd
Legal Director
Peter Daly
Peter Daly is a Partner within the employment team with a track record of pursuing high profile and complex litigation, and of resolving disputes effectively. His work pushes the boundaries of discrimination and whistleblowing law and both Chambers and The Legal 500 rank him as one of the UK’s leading employment lawyers with reviews including:
"He is one of the best employment lawyers out there on the claimant side in terms of technical knowledge and skill; his approach to strategy is second to none." … "He has novel arguments and is willing to go the extra mile for his clients."… "He's a very good lawyer and he is very creative." Chambers and Partners 2021
“Peter Daly is an exceptionally smart lawyer, technically strong and eminently pragmatic. From a client perspective, during what was an emotionally charged time, he showed compassion whilst never losing sight of achieving a good client outcome.” The Legal 500 2021
“Peter Daly has an encyclopaedic knowledge of employment practice as well as a very effective strategic mind.” The Legal 500 2020
“imaginative yet sensitive to the immediate needs of any client' and has 'strong attention to detail.” The Legal 500 2017
“an excellent legal mind and analytical skills” The Legal 500 2016
Peter Doyle
Managing Partner – Advises both corporate and individual clients on matters including senior executive terminations and disputes, bonus disputes, TUPE and business reorganisations, team moves, and restrictive covenant disputes, arbitration and partnership disputes.
Peter De Maria
Peter is a partner specialising in all areas of employment law. He has particular expertise in advising on the enforcement of restrictive covenants, team moves and bonus claims in the High Court. He is regularly involved in the resolution of boardroom disputes and in high value and complex employment tribunal cases concerning discrimination and whistleblowing.
Piers Leigh-Pollitt
Piers is a Partner with our Thames Valley team. He advises on employment issues including senior executive terminations, restrictive covenant disputes and business re-organisations. Piers is regarded as an expert in data protection issues insofar as they impact on HR/employment issues and frequently advises on data subject access requests for a wide range of corporate clients. He also heads up the Privacy team and advises clients on the implications of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Russell Dann
Senior Associate
Simon Henthorn
Simon is a Partner and Head of Education at Doyle Clayton. His clients include schools, multi-academy trusts and further education colleges. He also acts for individuals including Heads, Deputy Heads, Bursars and Professors.
Simon advises on all employment law issues and education matters involving safeguarding and pastoral care.
He is a solicitor advocate. He has appeared in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in the education case, Duncombe -v- DCSF.
Sukhpal Matharoo
Sukhpal is an experienced employment lawyer who provides advice to a broad range of commercial and individual clients. His main area of expertise includes TUPE and he also has experience of advising on redundancy and the exit of senior level executives.
Recent employment experience includes:
Advising a major international IT business on the TUPE transfer of several hundred staff;
Advising a client in the financial services sector on how to deal with the threat of industrial action by a Trade Union;
Advising a corporate client on the termination of an executive director who was also a shareholder in the business; and
Advising a client in the financial services sector as to the termination of employment of an approved person for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
In addition to being an employment lawyer, Sukhpal is also a notary public and provides notarial and legalisation services.
Notarial work includes:
Advising companies and individuals as to the steps to take to ensure that documents requiring notarisation will be accepted in the receiving country;
Notarising various types of documents including powers of attorney, affidavits, statutory declarations and company and commercial documents; and
Acting for commercial clients including two of the largest cosmetics brands in the world as well as a major high street bank and various Plc’s.
Tina Wisener
Tina is the head of Doyle Clayton’s Thames Valley office. She is a highly regarded and experienced employment lawyer with particular expertise in discrimination and whistleblowing cases, senior executive exits, outsourcing and TUPE, restructuring and redundancy programmes.
She works predominately with corporate clients and regularly advises senior executives.