Marian Bloodworth

Practice Areas

Marian is a directory ranked employment law partner with over 28 years of experience in helping clients across a range of sectors. Her particular expertise lies in the financial services sector where she helps clients to manage their HR regulatory risk. She advises on the employment law implications and challenges of regulatory regime requirements, including SMCR, internal and external regulatory investigations, and grievance and disciplinary processes (in particular in relation to non-financial misconduct). Her work also includes fitness and propriety, conduct rule breaches, regulatory references and senior level exits and negotiations. She has worked for many years with banks, insurers, brokers, private equity houses, hedge funds, investment managers, FinTech and payments firms. She also has a strong practice in advising and supporting senior executives and has acted for a number of founder/owners on their exits.

In addition to day-to-day employment law advice, she is experienced in managing complex and high-value litigation, having conducted a number of multi-strand claims for discrimination and whistleblowing. Marian is an experienced independent investigator who has acted on various investigations into alleged employee and director misconduct, in both the private and public sectors. She has also acted as special advisor to the Women and Equalities Select Committee on its inquiry into use of confidentiality clauses.

She is the former chair of the UK national Employment Lawyers Associations, co leads a special interest group on legal and regulatory change for CityHR, and is an Advisory Board member of Women in Banking and Finance.