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Gunnercooke LLP continues to grow its presence in the region, working in conjunction with other national offices, in addition to undertaking a range of contentious matters from its Leeds office. Jo Tindall, Joan Pettingill, and Mini Setty are noted for the breadth of their practice, while Angela Brumpton has experience in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims. Paul Menham and Ed Jenneson have expertise in the Equality Act and redundancy mandates.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Reliable, personable and attuned to the risk appetite of the organisation. Easily available and rapidly responding to issues as they arise. Feels like part of the team rather than an external stakeholder’

  • ‘Paul Menham is knowledgeable, realistic, transparent and to the point. He does not try to overcomplicate issues and cuts through complex issues in an easy to understand way. Paul is personable and approachable and emotionally invests in supporting his clients.’

  • ‘They are all experienced solicitors with over ten years experience, so you know the advice you receive will be to the highest standard.’

  • ‘Mini Setty is quite simply brilliant! Probably the best employment law solicitor I have ever worked with during my HR career. Very pragmatic, easy to talk to, listens, and provides excellent advice to support commercial business decisions. She also has a great personality and sense of humour! I cannot recommend Mini highly enough.’

  • ‘The team are approachable, knowledgeable and act in the best interests of the client. As a client, I am super impressed with the teams ability to manage complex changes in employment arenas, which are also at times untested and at pace. The team have good connections across Europe and have a barrister network which can be utilised via the team.'

  • ‘Jo Tindall has been imperative with the start-up of our employment practices within the company. Jo has supported us with complex cases, TUPE's, Union approaches, voluntary recognition, and difficult performance management processes. Jo has been flexible, approachable and at times, invited into the client workspace to give technical employment views with associated risks.'

  • 'Mini Setty is commercially aware, always professional, but friendly and available. During the pandemic we went through a whole company restructure and Mini's advice was invaluable in ensuring a fair consultation and redundancy process. I highly recommend her.’

  • ‘Gunner Cooke is excellent. My experience with them has been nothing but positive and supportive. The training they run is great, and I was particularly impressed by the menopause training they ran. Jo Tindall also came into my work place and trained all of our staff over several session on HR policy and the law, which was great! They are incredibly friendly and approachable.’

Key clients

  • Premier Technical Services Group Limited
  • Thomas of York
  • Bishop Burton College
  • Transaction Network Services Limited
  • Orion Himes Ltd
  • Cafeology Limited
  • SolarFrame Holdings
  • Aprolis UK
  • Homes for Students
  • Prince of Wales Hospice
  • St Gemma's Hospice
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  • Halton Housing

Work highlights

  • Advised the UK arm of Hologic Limited, a global women's health business, on its employment matters.
  • Advised Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited on employment law matters.
  • Acting as sole employment adviser to Sir Robert McAlpine Limited.

Other key lawyers

Jo Tindall, Mini Setty, Angela Brumpton, Joan Pettingill, Ed Jenneson, Paul Menham