Emma is a Partner in the Employment Department with significant experience providing strategic and commercial advice to businesses and individuals across the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Her clients are from a variety of industry sectors including financial services, media and entertainment, real estate, hospitality, charity, manufacturing, education, and local authorities.Emma regularly handles complex and high profile discrimination claims with a particular specialism in disability discrimination. Her clients praise her for being an “outstanding lawyer providing clear, honest and pragmatic advice coupled with an empathetic and measured approach”, “incredibly supportive” and having an “excellent grasp of strategy and tactics”.
Edwin Coe LLP
Edwin Coe LLP handles the full range of discrimination claims for senior executives, including those relating to sex, race and disability. Other key areas of work span whistleblowing cases, redundancy processes and severance negotiations. Linky Trott spearheads the team, and regularly deals with misconduct allegations. Another noted team member is the ‘marvellous’ Emma Sangeelee, who specialises in disability discrimination claims. Clare Gilroy-Scott handles a range of contentious and non-contentious matters, mainly exit and settlement negotiations.
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‘Emma Sangeelee is marvellous - knowledgeable, dedicated, strategic and had her client’s back to the bitter end.’
‘Clare Gilroy-Scott is excellent. She is kind, professional and on top of the law and current practice.'
'Linky Trott and Emma Sangeelee are highly talented, experienced and dedicated professionals and are supported by a committed and impressive team.'
- 'Linky Trott is smart, hard working and dedicated in her pursuit of the best outcome for her client. She draws on her wealth of experience of employment issues and prevailing market trends and on her technical expertise to provide well considered, pragmatic and strategic advice.'
- 'The Edwin Coe practice has excellent breadth and depth of experience and is unique in its well balanced delivery of professional litigation work alongside a dedicated and empathetic approach to its clients. It is a truly wonderful firm and group of professionals.’
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Linky Trott