Paul Gillen

Practice Areas

Paul is a partner in Lewis Silkin’s Employment, Immigration and Reward division based in Belfast. He is qualified in England & Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Paul provides cross jurisdiction and comparative law advice to clients throughout the UK and Ireland. He advises clients on contentious and non-contentious matters, including HR support, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, executive management, performance management, TUPE, outsourcing, discrimination law, and a full range of employment litigation.

His clients span a range of sectors and include multi-nationals and local businesses across the UK and Ireland. These sectors include food, retail, manufacturing, pharma, IT services and technology, financial services, education and government departments.

Professional Memberships

CIPD member – past chair

Institute of Directors – ambassador for diversity and inclusion

Member of the CBI Employment and Skills committee

Visiting professor to the school of law, Ulster University

Experience

Qualified (England & Wales) 2009

Qualified (Northern Ireland) 2010

Qualified (Ireland) 2011

B.Sc.(Hons) Psychology (Queen’s University Belfast) 1994

M.A. Human Resources Management (Ulster University) 1999

Chartered Fellow (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)

GDL (University of Huddersfield)

LPC (BPP London)

LLM Law and Employee Relations (University of Leicester) 2010