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Emma Phillips

Partner
Birmingham
About

Emma Phillips is an employment lawyer, with extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters, to include, complex, high value litigation, the protection of business interests, UK and global restructures, M&A and post-acquisition integration, global mobility and executive severance. Her clients include household names in a range of sectors, including manufacturing, energy, technology, insurance, retail and hospitality.

Areas of FocusConsumer Goods, Food and RetailEnergy and Natural ResourcesFinancial ServicesIndustrialsInsuranceEmploymentTechnology
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Negotiating the exit of senior executives for a number of PLC and FTSE 100 clients, in addition to protecting legitimate business interests via the enforcement of post-termination restraints, including a number of successful applications for injunctive relief in the High Court
  • Planning and implementing an exit programme in the UK, China/Hong Kong and ROI via settlement agreement for a global retailer and household name - exiting 140 senior/executive employees in less than 6 weeks, on time and within budget
  • Advising a global manufacturer on an intra-group asset restructure and UK site rationalisation programme, including the closure of 3 sites, the intra-group transfer of production to The Netherlands and the centralisation of customer services within the client's group. A complex project engaging both TUPE and collective redundancy over a phased transition through 2016/2017
  • Advising a global aerospace manufacturer on post-acquisition integration across 14 jurisdictions, requiring the application of complex TUPE/ARD principles and necessitating a detailed understanding of the client's business globally
  • Advising on the employee implications of the high profile Caparo Industries Plc administration, including advising the administrators, PwC, on a number of sales, comprising a substantial proportion of the Caparo business, salvaging more than 1,000 jobs
  • Representing Santander in the precedent setting case of Woodward v Santander, reaching the Court of Appeal and establishing legal principles in respect of post-termination whistle-blower detriment and without prejudice privilege
Languages
  • English
Education
  • College of Law, Post-Graduate Diploma in Employment Law
  • Legal Practice Course, University of the West of England, 2001
  • University of East Anglia, LLB with European Legal Systems, 2000


    University of Leiden, Holland, European Law and Jurisprudence, 1999

Awards

  • Ranked Lawyer in Chambers & Partners UK 2017

Publications

  • "Whistleblowing and the Public Interest", ELA Briefing, December 2015
  • Regular contributor to The Birmingham Post and Personnel Today
Emma volunteers for the Firm's Access to Justice Programme to assist vulnerable children and their families.

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Law Society of England & Wales
  • Employment Lawyers Association

Connect

Phone

+44 (0) 121 262 5608
(Work, Birmingham)
+44 (0) 7968 558909
(Work)
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