Doyle Clayton

Employment

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.

Where trained: Olswang, London Year qualified: 2003 Year made partner in present firm: 2015

Please summarise your professional career (ie: posts, jobs, appointments)

Trained at Olswang, qualifying into the Employment Department in 2003. Moved to Parker & Co in 2005. Moved to Doyle Clayton in 2011, promoted to Partner in 2015.

Before the LPC Dan spent a year working at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

French Italian

ELA, EELA, ELLINT (Employment & Labor Lawyers International)

Main secondary school attended: King Edward’s School, Birmingham Universities and colleges attended: BPP Law School, London, 2000 – 2001 University of Sheffield, 1995- 1999 Université de Nancy (France), 1997 - 1998 (Degrees and qualifications with years attained): LPC, 2001 BA Law with French, 1999 Certificat d’études juridiques francaises, 1997

Keen runner, and supporter of Birmingham City FC