About
Provided by Lewis Silkin
Lewis Silkin works with leading businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets - their ideas, their people and their future. We call it: Ideas. People. Possibilities.
Widely recognised as the UK's leading specialist employment law practice, our team of over 170 employment and immigration lawyers, including 33 partners advise on all the day to day UK and Irish employment law issues that arise from the initial employment offer to departure and everything in between.
We have the agility to be fully flexible to what our clients need, providing the right team at the right price for all types of companies whatever their stage of development
Our practice has the distinctive strength in depth to support clients in a range of specialist areas. We have dedicated teams who advise exclusively on business immigration and global mobility and employee incentives/employment tax. We also have specialist groups who focus on High Court litigation (such as restrictive covenants and team moves), collective employment law (including dealing with trade unions and European Works Councils), data protection and employee privacy, health and safety law and partnerships law. Through our rockhopper service, we can provide clients with low cost, fixed fee helpline and Employment Tribunal support.
We also advise on the employment aspects of outsourcing and M&A transactions and international employment law through our membership of Ius Laboris, the leading global employment law alliance.
Chambers Review
Lewis Silkin advises an impressive roster of local, national and international clients across a range of employment matters, including restructuring and TUPE transfers, and also offers seasoned tribunal representation. The team maintains a fine reputation for its employment work in advertising, publishing and media, and is also highlighted for its strength in manufacturing, leisure and retail. It offers extensive training and compliance programmes.
Work Highlights
- Lewis Silkin advised Banijay on all pre-completion employment aspectsof its acquisition of The Forge.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lewis Silkin's lawyers are incredibly responsive and deeply knowledgeable."
"They provide excellent customer service and have a very good understanding of the business needs of their clients."
"They have an exceptional breadth of deep expertise across the whole firm."
"Lewis Silkin's lawyers are incredibly responsive and deeply knowledgeable."
"They provide excellent customer service and have a very good understanding of the business needs of their clients."
"They have an exceptional breadth of deep expertise across the whole firm."
Notable Practitioners
Lucy Lewis is a skilled lawyer in the Lewis Silkin employment team in Cardiff. She is adept at advising on an array of matters, including redundancies, restructurings and TUPE issues.
"Lucy is super responsive, giving you a really clear indication not only of what the law says but how that applies to the facts."
"She provides commercial, to-the-point advice and is always on hand to support."
Richard Moore provides ongoing HR and employment-related advice to various companies and regularly assists clients with restructuring exercises, TUPE transfers and data privacy matters.
"He is intelligent, strategic, practical, responsive and thorough."
"He provides excellent and efficient advice."