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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP advises on the employment aspects of transactions, particularly in the online technology and sciences sectors. Nicola Whiteley, who focuses on strategic advice, TUPE issues, team moves and restructuring exercises, leads the team. She is supported by associates Emma Zarb and Charlotte Oliver.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘A great team very tech and founder focused, down to earth and extremely knowledgeable, led by the fantastic Nicola Whitely’

  • ‘Nicola Whitely is tenacious, commercial and utterly down to earth.’

  • ‘Orrick are highly responsive, practical, and provide pragmatic advice in my view.'

  • ‘We have a strong relationship with Orrick globally. I appreciate the value the firm puts on treating our company as one global client as opposed to handling each matter in each geography entirely independently.’

  • ‘Nicola Whiteley's expertise, demeanour and especially her practical and patient advice has helped us navigate some difficult and complicated issues. I very much appreciate Nicola's approach and ability to fully understand our goals and how to achieve them.’

  • ‘It is the pragmatic and business focus approach that sets Nicola Whiteley and her team apart from other legal teams I have worked with. Their ability to work quickly with creative and innovative solutions to solve critical business problems makes them an invaluable extension of the business'.

  • 'The global network gives you confidence to be able to deal with matters wherever they come up.’
  • ‘I have had the benefit of working with Nicola Whitely in the past. It is her approach and style that had me connect my current company to work with Nicola and Orrick's when I joined this year. She is always pragmatic with a clear business eye which makes her an invaluable trusted business partner.’

Key clients

  • ABN AMRO
  • ADM Investor Services International
  • Aptean, Inc.
  • Cambridge Glycoscience
  • Cisco International
  • Conjecture
  • GFT Financial Ltd
  • Graphcore
  • Hudson RPO Limited
  • Instil Bio, Inc
  • Kognitiv Corporation
  • Lilium GmbH
  • Mashreqbank
  • NVIDIA
  • One Media IP Group plc
  • Ørsted Onshore A/S
  • RingCentral
  • Sabre Corporation
  • SEB
  • Shopify
  • Trident Energy
  • Underdog Sports LLC
  • Workday Inc.

Work highlights

  • Advised Ford Next, LLC, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) on employment law aspects related to the creation of Canopy, a joint venture with ADT Inc.
  • Advised Sonantic Limited on employment law aspects of its acquisition by Spotify.
  • Advised Shipamax on employment law aspects of its acquisition by WiseTech Global.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nicola Whiteley

Other key lawyers

Charlotte Oliver, Emma Zarb