Offshore: Employment
UK Guide 2025 : Jersey
Band 1
About
Provided by Mourant
The Mourant Jersey Employment team provides a full-service offering, acting across a broad range of industry sectors and particularly well regarded for expertise in advising institutional clients in professional service industries. Such businesses are complex, with a number of key stakeholders involved on any matter.
The inimitable breadth of experience across the team (including from our pension and regulatory experts) enables its provision of practical, high-quality advice. All key team members are Jersey-qualified lawyers and have unparalleled expertise within the market. With a number of highly experienced Jersey Advocates, we have unrivalled contentious expertise across the team.
We have a loyal, established client base across a variety of sectors that values the quality of our advice and industry knowledge. Our reputation garners instructions from significant new clients regularly. In 2023, new clients came from a range of industries including private equity, hedge funds, wealth management, transportation and the third sector.
Routine work includes:
- Employment advisory (internal processes and terminations)
- Corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions)
- Restructuring and redundancy
- Contentious exits
- Business licensing and immigration permissions
- Consultancy/secondment agreements
- Contractual/policy documentation
More complex work includes employment tribunal litigation, alleged criminal activity by employees and partnership disputes.
Chambers Review
Mourant is renowned for its work on both contentious and non-contentious employment law including restructuring, union disputes and tribunal claims. Its clients include domestic and international groups, as well as senior-level executives. The firm enjoys a growing reputation for acting as employment counsel on mergers and acquisitions. It offers additional capabilities in regulatory compliance including GDPR.
Work Highlights
- Mourant represented a public transport operator in a successful defence of a claim for unfair dismissal.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Mourant team provides consistently strong, pragmatic and professional advice."
"The lawyers are very considered in their approach and provide relevant, timely information."
"The team demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the local environment in which we operate."
"The Mourant team provides consistently strong, pragmatic and professional advice."
"The lawyers are very considered in their approach and provide relevant, timely information."
"The team demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the local environment in which we operate."
Notable Practitioners
Carla Benest is the head of Jersey employment at Mourant. She operates a well-respected employment practice in which she advises a variety of clients including asset managers and trust companies on the full spectrum of employment issues.
"Carla is a very practical and commercial adviser with a great understanding of the business."
"Carla is unfailingly practical, pragmatic and cuts to the heart of the issue with ease."
"Carla Benest has a wealth of knowledge and always offers excellent support and guidance."
Laurie Child has a burgeoning disputes-focused practice but is also capable of advising clients on non-contentious matters.
"Laurie always delivers promptly and to a high standard."
"Laurie Chlid is very pragmatic in his approach and provides a very good balance of advice and support."
"He considers the bigger picture and offers pragmatic advice to support the best outcome."
Katie Phillips is a senior associate noted for her impressive employment practice. She regularly assists with discrimination matters and tribunal claims.
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