Anna-Louise Thomond

• Advising a leading technology app company on its global restructure, achieving a target 20-30% reduction in global headcount with approximately 5,000 impacted employees in over 40 jurisdictions.

• Advising a PLC on the restructure of its UK business, comprising a 15% headcount reduction with employee redundancies and LLP partner exits across 6 UK locations.

• Seconded to a stock exchange to lead on the global reorganisation and people planning and integration aspects of its all share acquisition of another global business.

• Advising a US entertainment company on the shuttering of its UK operations, including advising on the application of TUPE and negotiating senior employee exits.

• Acting on behalf of a leading business in the gig economy in a landmark case on worker status which was heard in the Supreme Court. 

• Advising a global business in relation to all aspects of its reclassification litigation in the UK, including acting in group litigation brought in the Employment Tribunal and High Court in respect of workers’ rights.

• Defending litigation brought in the Employment Tribunal against a large operator in the gig economy involving claims of race and religious discrimination, ordinary and constructive unfair dismissal, and whistleblowing.

Anna-Louise co-ordinates the firm’s Head Start Programme in the London office: an initiative providing long-term support to school and university students facing social, cultural or economic challenges, with the aim of improving equality of opportunity and breaking down barriers faced by underrepresented groups when entering the legal profession.