England - South East • Employment
Birketts LLP
Birketts LLP‘s employment department is well regarded for expert advice on contentious, non-contentious, advisory, and corporate transactional employment work, and is known for its ’high-level client care.‘ Clare Barlow leads the team in Chelmsford, and is sought out by national and international clients from a range of sectors, including financial services, insurance, private equity and technology industries. Jonathan Insley is experienced in handling complex disputes, and is very active in the transport and hospitality industries. Nicholas West is an expert in the employment aspects of corporate transactional work, while Abigail Hubert’s recent work includes a number of complex employee ownership trust matters.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Our firm has been working with Birketts employment department for several years now. Our clients are in times in need of UK employment advice, and they have stood out as being a very reliable partner. They are always very responsive to any request we have had for the UK. Always willing to assist and providing excellent advice in the agreed upon timeline.’
- ‘We can always count on the team (more specifically Clare Barlow who is our first point of contact, Abigail Hubert and Nicholas West). They are very responsive, and keep their promises on when they will be able to deliver the work.’
- ‘They get to understand the organisation well so they can offer the right level of support and advice. They genuinely care about what happens and make the time for you as a client to support and reassure the business.’
- ‘Practical, commercial advice. Pragmatic and simple to understand.’
- ‘Abigail Hubert is a very trusted adviser, who is always willing to go above and beyond in providing exceptional customer service. She always provides prompt advice which is sensible and very pragmatic.’
- ‘Personal attention together with down to earth advice.’
- ‘They are exceptional. All the solicitors that I work with are very organised, the cases are very well prepared, and they give excellent legal advice to their clients. Each of the team members that I work with provide very high-level client care. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of them.’
- ‘Nicholas West is a brilliant lawyer. He has a very calm and reassuring manner. He offers his clients a brilliant service. He is meticulously well prepared, and stays calm even in highly pressurised situations.’
Key clients
- Atalian Servest Limited
- Anderson Group
- Beresford Group Limited
- Brady Technologies Limited
- Chelmer Housing Partnership Limited
- CNH Industrial N.V.
- Colchester United Football Club Limited
- Databricks UK Limited
- FedEx Cross Border (UK) Limited
- Hanover Investors Management LLP
- Havens Hospices
- Jablite Limited
- Kalibrate Technologies Plc
- Manchester Underwriting Owners
- Midland Chilled Foods Limited
- Milsom Hotels Limited
- Readie Construction Limited
- Redpath Deilmann GmbH
- Total Protection (Management Services) Limited
- VVB Engineering (UK) Limited
- Absolute Post Limited
- Aspire Media Group Limited
- Aston Barclay Limited
- Autoprotect (MBI) Ltd
- Autotest Limited
- Briddge Legal and Finance, The Netherlands
- Brentwood Borough Council
- Commodity Centre Limited
- Custom Security Solutions Ltd
- DD Products and Services Ltd
- Direct Commercial Limited
- ECM Selection (Holdings) Limited
- Elemental Microanalysis Ltd
- Flagstone Financial Management Ltd
- Fullers (Builders) Limited
- Frederick J French (Contracts) Limited
- Granarolo SpA
- Granarolo (UK) Limited
- Harris Holdings (Grays) Limited
- HBB Communications Limited
- Iveco Retail Limited
- JJ Sweeney Limited
- J Reddington Ltd
- Lemon Groundwork Solutions Ltd
- Matterlab Ltd
- Metas Group
- M.W. Beer & Co. Limited
- Paris Partnership
- Seetec Business Technology Centre Limited
- Strengths Unleashed Limited
- Swift Scaffolding Limited
- Woodlands Schools Limited
- W.P.T. Support Services Limited
- YFM Private Equity Limited
Lawyers
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Clare Barlow