Employment: Pensions

Joanne Hyde is noted for her ability to provide solutions in sensitive and complex employment matters. She expertly handles collective redundancies and senior executive exits, offering additional experience in unfair dismissals, disciplinary issues and discrimination claims. She also advises on gender pay gap compliance and internal investigations.

"Joanne is extremely responsive and provides very high-quality guidance."

"Joanne's expertise and experience is unmatched. She is incredibly knowledgeable, pragmatic and commercially aware, such that her timely and on-point advice is superb."

Peter Fahy remains a prominent lawyer in the market, having longstanding experience advising corporate clients and trustees on contentious and non-contentious pensions topics, pension plan wind-ups, the establishment of master trusts and transfers.

"Peter provides us with an excellent service and very detailed advice. He is also very aware of time challenges and responds accordingly."

"Peter delivers an excellent level of service on both large projects and the day-to-day running of pensions schemes."

"Peter Fahy is an excellent person to have in your corner."

Julie Galbraith is a prominent lawyer advising international companies on a range of collective and individual employment law matters. She often handles cross-border transfers of employees and compliance matters, in addition to policy implementation and redundancies.

"Julie is a brilliant employment lawyer. She is diligent, proactive and provides sound legal advice."

"Julie combines strong technical skill with pragmatic commercial awareness. She is a superb jargon-free communicator."

"Julie is highly knowledgeable, understands our business extremely well and is a highly trusted partner to our business."

Marie Claire Scullion assists with a range of employment issues, including terminations, redundancies, TUPE issues and the employment elements of M&A transactions. She also handles sexual harassment claims. She joined Eversheds Sutherland from Whitney Moore in January 2024.

"Marie Claire Scullion consistently demonstrates excellent legal understanding of complex issues and has an innate ability to give pragmatic, business-focused advice."

"Marie Claire is very helpful, responsive, efficient and approachable."

David McKeating assists corporate clients and trustees with a range of pensions matters including winding up, mergers and demergers of pensions schemes, the establishment of master funds and IORP II compliance.