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Providing bespoke advice to professional services firms worldwide

Our leading professional services team specialises in professional liability matters and defends claims of alleged professional negligence against a wide variety of professionals including lawyers, accountants, architects, surveyors, company directors, finance and insurance brokers and healthcare professionals.

We support professional services firms and networks of all sizes. Our focus on each of the major professions enables us to understand the commercial, reputational and regulatory pressures each client faces, and to provide targeted risk management and other advice.

Our team has extensive experience of handling regulatory, disciplinary and investigatory proceedings on behalf of all professions. Our lawyers are adept at guiding clients through the particular challenges presented by parallel civil and disciplinary proceedings, including those which involve multiple jurisdictions.

Our Professional Services Work

  • Tout
  • Royaume-Uni et Europe
  • Advising Unions in redundancy and TUPE transfers

    Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened

    Royaume-Uni

    Allegations of failure to consult on a change programme

    Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.

    Royaume-Uni

    Establishing internal employee consultation structures

    Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)

    Royaume-Uni

    Legal options of balloting and strike action

    Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)

    Royaume-Uni

    Long running Unite Employment Tribunal case

    Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings

    Royaume-Uni

    Pre-litigation equal pay case and Trade Union negotiations

    Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.

    Royaume-Uni

    Request for registration as a leviable establishment

    Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.

    Royaume-Uni

    Resolution of dispute and avoiding industrial action

    Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action

    Royaume-Uni

    Resolving disputes via ACAS and other processes

    Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes

    Royaume-Uni

    Trade Union rule book revisions

    Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions

    Royaume-Uni
  • Advising Unions in redundancy and TUPE transfers

    Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened

    Royaume-Uni

    Allegations of failure to consult on a change programme

    Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.

    Royaume-Uni

    Establishing internal employee consultation structures

    Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)

    Royaume-Uni

    Legal options of balloting and strike action

    Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)

    Royaume-Uni

    Long running Unite Employment Tribunal case

    Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings

    Royaume-Uni

    Pre-litigation equal pay case and Trade Union negotiations

    Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.

    Royaume-Uni

    Request for registration as a leviable establishment

    Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.

    Royaume-Uni

    Resolution of dispute and avoiding industrial action

    Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action

    Royaume-Uni

    Resolving disputes via ACAS and other processes

    Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes

    Royaume-Uni

    Trade Union rule book revisions

    Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions

    Royaume-Uni

Our Professional Services team

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford

Partner

Mark Beswetherick
Mark Beswetherick

Partner

Anousheh Bromfield
Anousheh Bromfield

Partner

Anthony Brown
Anthony Brown

Partner

Fergal Cathie
Fergal Cathie

Partner

Tim Crockford
Tim Crockford

Partner

Dr. Radosław Góral
Dr. Radosław Góral

Partner

Athol Gordon
Athol Gordon

Partner

Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison

Partner

Rebecca Kelly
Rebecca Kelly

Managing Partner – Australia

Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller

Partner

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