Chambers Review
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Employment - North West
What the Team is Known For
Pannone Corporate's employment team stands out for its work with clients in the hospitality, social housing and charity sectors. The team's advice covers a broad range of areas including TUPE, redundancies and corporate transactions. Pannone's lawyers are able to assist clients in contentious proceedings, including tribunal claims, as well as non-contentious ongoings such as day-to-day HR issues and bespoke training.
Strengths
They stand out due to their quick response times, their practical, hands-on approach and their ability to guide us through complex issues while maintaining a balanced perspective.
Pannone offers a quick response time. They are detail-oriented and put work into plain English, as some topics can be complex.
The Pannone team build solid relationships and take the time to understand our business so that they can provide commercial advice which aligns with our business strategy.
They stand out for their exceptional responsiveness, practical advice and deep understanding of employment law from an employer’s perspective. They provide tailored, solution-focused support.
Pannone have high levels of expertise and professionalism. They offer pragmatic problem solving, and they are proactive and very responsive. They deal with matters in a prompt and efficient manner.
Work Highlights
Pannone Corporate represented a CEO in the retail sector on an agreed exit, which included advice on the exit timing and issues regarding the LTIPS, among other aspects.
Notable practitioners
Fiona Hamor is highly adept at handling TUPE matters and senior employee exits, as well as claims relating to equal pay, discrimination and victimisation. She also has experience in Employment Tribunal and EAT cases.
She has helped us with some of our most challenging cases. She has been a solid support from start to finish.
Fiona Hamor is excellent. She understands our business. She quickly absorbs complex information and delivers quality advice and risk management. Fiona always responds quickly.
Fiona brings fantastic strengths.
Fiona is very pragmatic. She gets straight to the point of the matter, and she is good at steering the conversation back if people go off track. She's commercially focused.
Jack Harrington is an experienced partner regarded for his client-facing approach and knowledge across employment law. He has expertise in TUPE, as well as handling unfair dismissal and discrimination claims.
He always makes the time to discuss everything thoroughly with us and make sure we understand all the implications of our decisions. Jack is extremely knowledgeable.
I highly recommend Jack Harrington for his expertise in both employment and commercial advice. His deep knowledge and practical approach ensure that his guidance is always clear and strategic.
He has consistently provided steadfast advice on every issue I have brought to him. What really sets Jack apart in my view is his knowledge, availability and responsiveness, which has been unwavering.
Jack Harrington has become a trusted partner to our business through providing a high level of service on complex matters facing the organisation.
Jack always makes himself available. He's tactical. He thinks outside the box and instils a lot of confidence. He is commercially astute. Jack has strong knowledge of the litigation process.