Sian Hoare

Sian is an employment and corporate immigration specialist in the Employment Team. She provides strategic and commercial advice to a wide range of clients ensuring that she always invests time into understanding her clients’ business needs providing advice in a format which is ‘on point’ and easy to digest.

Sian provides advice to clients on grievances, disciplinary issues, discrimination issues, collective redundancies, enforceability of restrictive covenants and TUPE transfers. Sian represents clients at Tribunal and provides support to the corporate team with M&A work. Sian advises on corporate immigration from right to work checks to obtaining and maintaining sponsor licences.

Recent work includes:

•representing a manufacturer of contact lenses in defending a claim of constructive unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal.

•advising on a complex and sensitive investigation of a group of employees who had set up a WhatsApp group on their company phone and had made sexist and racist remarks;

•supporting clients in the hospitality sector in the harmonisation and implementation of new contracts involving significant changes to employee remuneration including the consultation process;

Sian trained with Shoosmiths and qualified in 2007. She was promoted to Senior Associate in 2017.