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Moore Barlow

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Moore Barlow has a full-service employment offering, with work ranging from litigation concerning restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties to whistleblowing and discrimination claims, as well as TUPE transfers, immigration matters, insolvencies and day-to-day employment issues, acting for SMEs and plcs. Practice head Katherine Maxwell, who is based in Southampton and Richmond, advises global organisations and private individuals on post-termination restrictive covenants, reorganisations and redundancies. Splitting his time across Woking and Guildford is the ‘committed’ David Ludlow, who provides ’very clear and definitive advice’ including providing M&A support and advice on employee competition, director’s duties and shareholder litigation to senior executives and clients in the charities, schools and medical sectors. In Richmond, Naomi Greenwood is also noted for her expertise in the advertising, media and financial services sectors.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘David Ludlow is a committed lawyer who offers commercial and employment law experience.’

  • ‘The team we worked with took charge of every detail with an entrepreneurial spirit and commitment. When working with international companies it is essential to know how to share information with respect to the reference country, and this too was done with great pragmatism. The creativity of the solutions and the flexibility in applying them was certainly an added value.’

  • ‘The person with whom we worked was able to establish a correct human and professional relationship, took the time to fully understand the problem and was available whenever necessary. The distinctive trait is certainly flexibility combined with great competence.'

  • ‘Very clear and definitive advice from David Ludlow which gave our partnership great reassurance and support. I have since recommended him to several colleagues because of the exceptional service.’

  • 'Overall, really good service from Moore Barlow. We have been working with them for many years now and they continue to provide pragmatic employment law advice to us. We work with Naomi Greenwood, who has endeavoured to understand our business which helps her to provide a sound, considered and appropriate level of advice to us on all aspects of employment law.'

Key clients

  • Abus Crane Systems Limited
  • A2C Services Limited
  • Teamcard Limited
  • BD Network Limited
  • Camm & Hooper Limited
  • Churchill Retirement Plc
  • Cowdray Estate
  • Darwin & Wallace Plc
  • Eliga Services Limited
  • Explore Learning Limited
  • Foxhills Golf and Country Club Ltd
  • Euronews Group
  • Firefly Capital Limited
  • Foreman Homes Group
  • Gravity Media Group
  • Hann Tucker Associates Limited
  • Sayer Vincent Chartered Accountants
  • Hozah Parking Limited
  • Hythe Marine Services Limited
  • Kartesia Investment Management
  • BSC Education Group
  • Menarini Stemline
  • Miltenyi Biotech Gmbh and Miltenyi Limited
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital
  • Harro Hoefliger Packaging Systems Limited
  • Workaround GmbH
  • PK Group Limited
  • Plum Products Limited
  • MeteoGroup (now DTN Europe Limited)
  • Vision Engineering Ltd
  • SiSaf Limited
  • Sir Richard Sutton Limited
  • Solventis Limited
  • Southern Communications Limited
  • SKS Business Services Ltd
  • Trident Garages Limited
  • Total Merchandise Limited
  • Traylen Enterprises Limited
  • ViewSonic
  • ETS Cable Components Ltd
  • World Sailing (UK) Limited
  • Waste Paper/ Cycle Link
  • Xenor Ltd

Work highlights

  • Acted for Teamcard Limited in successfully defending an Employment Tribunal unfair dismissal and breach of contract claim across jurisdictions, a matter which arose out of a restructuring with attendant redundancies.
  • Instructed by Moorfields, a London eye hospital, providing a range of employment law advice on complex matters.
  • Advised new client, Menarini Stemline, a fast growing Italian based pharmaceuticals business, on a wide variety of UK employment law matters over the course of 2022.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Katherine Maxwell

Other key lawyers

David Ludlow, Naomi Greenwood