Dan Begbie-Clench

Languages Spoken

English. Dan is also fluent in French and speaks basic Italian and Portuguese.

Industry Sector Expertise

Financial Services, Media, Tech, Fashion and Pharma.

Practice Areas

Dan specialises in employment law and advises a range of companies and partnerships, and senior executives, partners and employees. He is known for commercial and responsive advice. He is recommended for his work in the leading legal directories, the Chambers UK Guide 2022 and The Legal 500 Guide 2022.

His clients come from a wide range of sectors including financial services, media, tech, fashion and pharma. Many have international operations where his lead role in Doyle Clayton’s founding membership of ELLINT, the international network of specialist employment law firms, adds considerable value.

Dan's work for employers includes enforcing post-termination restrictions and preventing employees from using confidential information, as well as advising on strategic employment law issues and reorganisations. His work for senior executives, LLP members, partners and employees includes helping them to negotiate contracts and favourable exit terms. He also advises on bonus and pay disputes, Board and partnership disputes, whistleblowing and discrimination claims.

Dan heads our Canary Wharf office, managing a team of six senior and junior lawyers.

Career

Qualified in October 2003

Specialist in Employment Law since 2003

Olswang (now CMS) from 2001 to 2005

Parker & Co 2005 to 2011

Joined Doyle Clayton in 2011 becoming a partner in 2015.

Professional Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association

European Employment Lawyers Association

Publications

Dan has had a number of articles published by The Times and by HR publications, including People Management and HR Magazine.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

United Kingdom

Work Highlights

Advising a number of financial services employers investigating misuse of confidential information and breaches of restrictive covenants by departing employees, and taking steps including High Court action to protect their businesses from unlawful competition.

Advising a healthcare company on its investigation into historic allegations of sexual harassment committed by a senior employee, which were raised by an employee during a grievance process.

Acting for a household name PLC in defending allegations of whistle-blowing brought by an overseas employee.

Advising a pharma company on an internal restructure of its HR and recruitment functions.

Representing a senior executive in the insurance business in an equal pay and sex discrimination claim, achieving settlement of the Tribunal case for a sum in excess of £700k.

Advising two in-house lawyers working for a utility company who raised whistle-blowing complaints, achieving settlements of over 1.5 year's pay for each.