About

Provided by Lewis Silkin

Lewis Silkin works with leading businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets - their ideas, their people and their future. We call it: Ideas. People. Possibilities. 

Widely recognised as the UK's leading specialist employment law practice, our team of over 170 employment and immigration lawyers, including 33 partners advise on all the day to day UK and Irish employment law issues that arise from the initial employment offer to departure and everything in between. 

We have the agility to be fully flexible to what our clients need, providing the right team at the right price for all types of companies whatever their stage of development

Our practice has the distinctive strength in depth to support clients in a range of specialist areas. We have specialist groups who focus on High Court litigation (such as restrictive covenants and team moves), collective employment law (including dealing with trade unions and European Works Councils), data protection and employee privacy, health and safety law and partnerships law. Through our rockhopper service, we can provide clients with low cost, fixed fee helpline and Employment Tribunal support.

Our dedicated senior executives team advise individuals on all aspects of employment law, with particular specialism in discrimination law.

We also advise on the employment aspects of outsourcing and M&A transactions and international employment law through our membership of Ius Laboris, the leading global employment law alliance.

Chambers Review

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Employment: Senior Executive - London (Firms)

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What the Team is Known For

Lewis Silkin is recognised for its work for both employers and senior executives in the financial services, retail, advertising, technology and professional services sectors. The firm houses a deep bench of experienced practitioners who routinely act for clients on discrimination and restrictive covenant matters. The firm's recent work has included advising 'gig economy' employers on matters relating to worker status. It also offers a robust practice advising on the employment aspects of large corporate transactions, including those involving TUPE transfers or substantial international elements. Lewis Silkin also boasts specialist expertise in High Court litigation and sensitive investigations.

Work Highlights

  • Lewis Silkin represented Aon in connection with a substantial conspiracy claim seeking injunctive relief and damages, arising from alleged unlawful poaching raids conducted across different jurisdictions, including the UK and South America.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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James Davies
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James Davies
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Senior Statespeople
James Davies draws praise for his experience acting on high-level employment matters. Clients turn to Davies for advice on both domestic and international employment matters.

James provides good advice to clients and is incredibly experienced.

Richard Miskella
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Richard Miskella
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Eminent Practitioners
Richard Miskella receives acclaim for his work on behalf of major employers and senior executives. He is particularly noted for his expertise advising clients on investigations and workplace culture change. Miskella has been the joint managing partner of Lewis Silkin since 2019.

Richard is an exceptional lawyer whose curiosity and drive for social change combined with his expertise and pragmatism makes for an unimprovable combination.

Over the years Richard has been a helpful and supportive sounding board and I have appreciated his commercial awareness alongside his brilliant legal knowledge.

David Hopper
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David Hopper
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David Hopper is a partner at Lewis Silkin who is commended for his expertise in collective employment law and is sought out by employers for his expertise in this area.

He is a subject matter expert. All things considered, David is one of the best attorneys I have worked with.

David's expertise is unparalleled.

He has always been an incredible support with the required expertise and understanding of our business.

Michael Anderson
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Michael Anderson
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Band 1
Michael Anderson co-leads the High Court employment litigation practice group at Lewis Silkin. He is valued for his High Court experience, particularly in team move litigation, and is noted for his work with financial services clients.

Michael Anderson is great. He knows his stuff and is effective.

Michael Anderson is smart, results-oriented and extremely responsive.

Michael Anderson has extraordinary experience.

Michael Burd
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Michael Burd
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Michael Burd is a partner in Lewis Silkin's employment offering. He has extensive experience of advising employers on high-level employment disputes and is noted for his work on cross-border matters.
Nicholas Hadaway
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Nicholas Hadaway
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Nicholas Hadaway is a partner at Lewis Silkin who is well known for his work for senior-level employees working in the City of London. He advises clients on high-value disputes and is regularly called upon to handle cases involving discrimination and whistle-blowing.

Nicholas was a pleasure to work with and very user-friendly. He was extremely responsive, supportive and quick to provide commercial guidance, when necessary, because of his wealth of experience.

Nicholas Hadaway is an outstanding advocate, solicitor and commercial intellect.

He was very professional, thorough and detail-oriented.

Nicholas in an excellent solicitor. He gets right to the heart of a dispute and tries to bring in the client's desired outcome at proportionate cost. He is a pleasure to work with.

Toni Lorenzo
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Toni Lorenzo
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Co-lead of the High Court employment litigation practice at Lewis Silkin, Toni Lorenzo is highly experienced in handling High Court disputes and is lauded as an expert on restrictive covenants and team moves. He is recognised for his work with both employers and employees.

Toni is totally committed, great on the law and on the cases. He is great to work with and very impressive.

Toni is without doubt one of the most talented and dedicated partners in the market.

He is an excellent, first rate employment lawyer.

David Samuels
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David Samuels
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Band 2

David Samuels is a partner in the employment litigation team at Lewis Silkin. He is recommended by clients for his proficiency in handling team move and whistleblowing claims.

Colin Leckey
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Colin Leckey
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Colin Leckey is distinguished for his expertise in employment cases relating to worker status and equal pay. His clients include technology and financial services firms.

Colin Leckey is an incredible lawyer.

Colin is fantastic. He is unbelievably bright, but commercially sharp and a pleasure to work with.

Colin is particularly skilled at dealing with complex client management issues and conducting high court and tribunal litigation, in which he's highly experienced.

Karen Baxter
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Karen Baxter
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Karen Baxter is head of the investigations and regulatory practice at Lewis Silkin. She is particularly sought after for her workplace investigations expertise, as well as her experience with discrimination and harassment claims before the Employment Tribunal.

Her advice is commercial, practical and creative, ensuring we have solutions that work for the business. Even in the most complex of situations, she's very credible in front of senior stakeholders.

Karen is very knowledgeable, provides strong, commercial and practical advice and is a delight to work with.

Karen is excellent at investigations.

Sean Dempsey
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Sean Dempsey
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Sean Dempsey is a partner at Lewis Silkin who is recognised for his work advising household-name clients on sensitive employment matters. He regularly advises clients in the technology sector. Dempsey is well placed to provide cross-jurisdictional employment advice across the UK and Ireland as he is triple-qualified.

He's one of the best, most responsive and commercial partners I've ever worked with.

He has excellent technical knowledge and an ability to apply that commercially.

Sean has been great managing and always helps us find innovative solutions to our problems.

Tarun Tawakley
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Tarun Tawakley
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Lewis Silkin partner Tarun Tawakley draws on his experience as the former head of employment law and commercial litigation at Deliveroo to provide expert advice to clients that operate in the 'gig economy'. He regularly advises clients on compliance and worker status issues.

He is an extremely good strategic thinker and very imaginative.

Lee Nair
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Lee Nair
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Lee Nair is a partner at Lewis Silkin and specialises in international employment matters. She co-leads the firm's TUPE and contingent worker specialist groups and regularly advises on M&A, restructurings and outsourcings.

Lee Nair is excellent and very pragmatic. She provides excellent communication, both written and verbal, and is always willing to think outside the box with creative solutions.

She is a phenomenal individual to work with, with incredible knowledge and patience in approaching issues.

She's done great work in the employment space.

Shalina Crossley
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Shalina Crossley
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Shalina Crossley expertly conducts investigations into workplace discrimination and misuse of confidential information allegations. Her recent work includes advising on sexual and financial misconduct.

She will always prioritise her client. You feel wholly supported and deeply empowered by her ability to cut through to the heart of an issue and devise a strategic and powerful response.

Shalina is exceptional. She provides clear, commercial advice imbued with care. She quickly understands a problem and addresses it with clarity and pragmatism.

Carla Watling
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Carla Watling
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Up and Coming
Carla Watling is a managing associate at Lewis Silkin. She is called upon by employers to handle team move litigation and transactional support. Watling has particular expertise in handling matters pertaining to recruitment law and employment status.

Carla is an excellent lawyer who is very commercially savy and superb for employee competition disputes.

Carla Watling is really excellent.

She has first class knowledge in this space.

Carla is very experienced.

She's a responsive, pragmatic professional and approachable.

Laetitia Cooke
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Laetitia Cooke
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Up and Coming
Laetitia Cooke is a managing associate at Lewis Silkin. Her practice sees her handle a broad range of matters for senior individuals, with recent cases involving whistle-blowing, harassment and discrimination.

Laetitia has a superb eye for what matters in a particular case and how to achieve the relevant commercial outcome.

Anna Bond
Associates to watch

Anna Bond is a managing associate at Lewis Silkin with expertise on DE&I issues, discrimination and investigations.

Anna provides sound, commercial and practical advice in a calm and measured way.

Anna provides an exceptional client service, working as an extension of our team to deliver commercial and pragmatic advice. She is personable, credible and an expert on many complex matters.

Anna is always very on top of everything. She has really thought ahead about the issues and what will be engaged in a case.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Employment: Employer

James Davies
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James Davies
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Senior Statespeople
Richard Miskella
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Richard Miskella
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Eminent Practitioners
Michael Burd
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Michael Burd
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Band 1
Toni Lorenzo
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Toni Lorenzo
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Band 1
Colin Leckey
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Colin Leckey
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Band 3
Michael Anderson
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Michael Anderson
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Band 3
Karen Baxter
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Karen Baxter
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Band 4
Sean Dempsey
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Sean Dempsey
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Band 4
Tarun Tawakley
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Tarun Tawakley
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Band 4
Lee Nair
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Lee Nair
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Band 6
Shalina Crossley
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Shalina Crossley
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Band 6
Carla Watling
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Carla Watling
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Up and Coming
Anna Bond
Associates to watch
Employment: Employer: High Court Litigation

Michael Anderson
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Michael Anderson
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Band 1
Toni Lorenzo
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Toni Lorenzo
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Band 1
David Samuels
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David Samuels
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Band 2
Carla Watling
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Carla Watling
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Up and Coming
Employment: Employer: Industrial Relations

David Hopper
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David Hopper
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Band 1
Employment: Senior Executive

Richard Miskella
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Richard Miskella
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Eminent Practitioners
Nicholas Hadaway
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Nicholas Hadaway
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Band 1
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