Alice Yandle
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Education: Institutions (Schools)
Band 4
About
Provided by Alice Yandle
Practice Areas
Alice is a Partner in Farrer & Co’s Employment Team. She is an experienced employment lawyer, advising both organisations and senior executives on complex employment, partnership and regulatory issues. Alice frequently advises on employee competition matters, including confidential information and post-termination restraints in the context of team moves.
Alice advises C-suite executives, senior employees and partners on all employment and partnership matters including: negotiating complex joining arrangements and departures including the implications for equity and incentive awards, particularly in the private equity context; advising those subject to misconduct investigations, often with regulatory considerations; advising on high value discrimination and whistleblowing complaints and on disputes concerning the enforceability of restrictive covenants.
Alice represents employers in a range of sectors including insurance, financial services, corporate, legal, and education. She advises on the full range of employment issues, including complex restructuring exercises, workplace investigations (including those with regulatory implications), TUPE, negotiating employee entrances and exits, and advising on the drafting of and enforcement of restrictive covenants.
Alice has extensive litigation experience when advising both senior executive and employers, and is adept at handling and defending complex and high-value discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Alice also has substantial experience in High Court and Court of Appeal litigation, including on employee competition matters.
Alice also has an extensive practice in the education sector and regularly advises schools on safeguarding issues, pupil-related matters, special educational needs, the full range of Equality Act 2010 issues, parental complaints and complex investigations (including staff misconduct matters involving DBS and TRA referrals and hearings), alongside her employment work for schools.
Career
Alice joined Farrer & Co as a trainee solicitor in 2012 and qualified into the firm’s Employment team in 2014. Alice was promoted to Partner in May 2023.
Professional Memberships
Alice is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) Training Committee, regularly Chairing and speaking at events. She is also a member of the International Forum of Senior Executive Advisers (IFSEA), the Industrial Law Society (ILS) and the Association of Partnership Practitioners (APP).
Chambers Review
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Alice Yandle advises schools on various corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions and sales. She is also adept at assisting with employment and SEN issues, including redundancies, pension matters and discrimination claims before the First-tier Tribunal.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Alice is calm and considered, even when faced with extremely challenging situations. Her advice is clear and to the point, and her drafting is first class."
"Alice commands our absolute confidence on all education, safeguarding and HR matters."
"She is a powerhouse and my go-to partner."
"She has a phenomenal work ethic and combines considered clarity with a keen eye for detail and, where necessary, a decisive instinct for what will close a matter down or shift the paradigm."
"Alice is calm and considered, even when faced with extremely challenging situations. Her advice is clear and to the point, and her drafting is first class."
"Alice commands our absolute confidence on all education, safeguarding and HR matters."
"She is a powerhouse and my go-to partner."
"She has a phenomenal work ethic and combines considered clarity with a keen eye for detail and, where necessary, a decisive instinct for what will close a matter down or shift the paradigm."