BDB Pitmans
Typically acting as legal advisors to chief executives, practitioners at BDB Pitmans’ have a ‘depth of experience’ across a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Team head Brian Gegg advises on redundancies and employment terminations, while Caroline Yarrow handles salary and bonus payment disputes. The team is also well versed in whistleblowing and victimisation claims. Tim Hayes has a specialised employment and immigration practice, and advises on departures.
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Testimonials
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‘BDB Pitmans offer an extremely user-friendly, partner-led service across the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters for individuals, teams and employers. Their depth of experience on both sides of the table enables them to be very effective at achieving satisfactory outcomes to the most sensitive negotiations.’
‘Caroline Yarrow is an experienced, technically sound, solution-focussed employment partner. She is a sensible, reassuring lawyer in a complex dispute, never unnecessarily raises the temperature but will negotiate hard when required.’
'Brian Gegg - took time to fully understand the objectives and outcomes of the engagement. Highly communicative throughout and no surprises at the end with the commercial side.'
Key clients
- ACEVO
Work highlights
- Providing a service to ACEVO which involves acting as legal advisors to third sector chief executives when issues against them arise.
- Represented a senior IT developer at Twitter in the redundancy processed set in motion following the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
- Advised a managing director at the Royal Bank of Canada on how best to navigate the breakdown of his relationship with a senior manager and, in turn, his employer.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Brian Gegg