Nockolds Solicitors‘ recent workload has included TUPE implications from business sales and purchases, as well as corporate restructurings and redundancies. Darren Hayward jointly leads the practice group and predominantly focuses on advising a wide range of regional, national and global employers on a full range of employment issues. Fellow co-head Gary Smith is very well experienced in the space. Principal associate Rachel Davis focuses on employer-side issues, advising on redundancy, discrimination, unfair dismissal, restrictive covenants, injunctions and whistleblowing, among other matters.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Very efficient team throughout ’

  • ‘Personable business. Darren Hayward understands our business needs and is commercially tuned in to what we require ’

  • ‘We always enjoy working with the Employment Team at Nockolds. They have the agility to be fully flexible to whatever we need, providing the right advice tailored to our firm and always at a fair price. Going far beyond just legal advice, they support us with a range of innovative, value-adding services including consultancy, training, flexible legal resourcing and day to day HR. They are always prompt, professional and approachable, and have excellent strength in depth.’

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Darren Hayward, Gary Smith

Other key lawyers

Rachel Davis, Joanna Sutton