Verity Buckingham
DentonsDentons acts for clients including major private equity funds, international corporations and governmental agencies on the full range of critical employment mandates, with deep sector expertise across the retail, transport, technology, media and telecoms industries. Head of practice Sarah Beeby is extremely well-regarded in the space and is ‘exceptionally knowledgeable, decisive and commercially astute’. Verity Buckingham is a name to note for senior exits, supporting corporate transactions and defending both tribunal and appeal tribunal claims.
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Testimonials
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‘Helena Rozman and Verity Buckingham are both very good at dealing with complex multi-day trials and challenging litigants in person.’
‘Dentons always provides us with practical and pragmatic advice and detailed monthly time analysis with their invoices. We engage them on an annual retainer and have a dedicated team to provide us with Employment Law advice, which ensures they understand our business and ways of working. We also get in person annual legal update sessions which help to build the relationship with our HR team. Their pragmatism and ability to handle a wide range of often complex ER matters/challenges has proved to be invaluable in ensuring we resolve all matters satisfactorily whilst mitigating legal risk. ’
‘Sarah Beeby has developed a great team leading by example and she personally always finds time to provide advice when needed. All members of her team are competent and capable of delivering the requisite advice as and when needed. It is a pleasure to work with this team and they really do help us to successfully resolve our wide range of ER issues and challenges. ’
‘Very experienced large team, commercially driven and timely advice. Lawyers are down to earth and easy to deal with, no egos.’
‘Sarah Beeby, exceptionally knowledgeable, decisive, commercially astute, very approachable and available’
‘Everyone I have worked with in the team has been very diligent and competent and capable of turning work around at short notice’
Key clients
- KKR
- Ministry of Defence
- HSBC Bank plc
- Arbuthnot Latham & Co Ltd
- Oz Earth Limited
- Octopus Investments Limited
- Network Rail Infrastructure Limited
- Govia Thameslink Railway Limited
- TUI UK Limited
- Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited
- Wizz Air Limited
- 3M United Kingdom Plc
- LGMG Europe B.V.
- Drax Corporate Limited
- Rackspace Limited
- Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
- American Eagle Outfitters Inc
- Royal Albert Hall
- Covenant House International
- Cognita Schools Limited
Work highlights
- Providing employment law support to 3M in the UK, and co-ordinating advice throughout the EMEA region on region wide employment law issues.
- Advised Rackspace on the restructuring of its operations in the UK and coordinated advice across numerous other jurisdictions.
- Acting as an extension of the Royal Albert Hall's HR team, advising on all manner of HR and employment law issues.
Lawyers
Leading associates
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Leading partners
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Sarah Beeby
DentonsPractice head
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Sarah Beeby