Charissa Upton
UK Guide 2025
Associates to watch : Employment
Associates to watch
About
Provided by Charissa Upton
Practice Areas
Charissa is a senior associate in the employment team in Cambridge. She advises corporate and private clients on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious, in a broad range of industry sectors, including financial services, utilities, technology, retail and leisure, and professional services. Building on her financial services experience, Charissa has also spent time working as part of the employee relations team at a major investment bank.
With a strong track record across employment status, unfair dismissal, discrimination, business transfers, restructuring and redundancies, contracts of employment, restrictive covenants, consultancy agreements, disciplinary and grievance matters, as well as corporate transactions, Charissa aims to provide commercial and pragmatic advice in all matters.
Career
Charissa qualified in 2004 and joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2018 after more than 10 years at another City law firm.
Chambers Review
UK
Charissa Upton is a senior associate based in the firm's Cambridge office. She has notable experience advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters across multiple sectors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Charissa is a very capable all-round employment lawyer."
"Charissa was astute, reassuring, reliable, highly knowledgeable and a real ally. She was a pleasure to work with and filled me with confidence at every step of the process."
"Charissa is a pleasure to work with, giving detailed and prompt responses while being super reliable."
"Charissa is a very capable all-round employment lawyer."
"Charissa was astute, reassuring, reliable, highly knowledgeable and a real ally. She was a pleasure to work with and filled me with confidence at every step of the process."
"Charissa is a pleasure to work with, giving detailed and prompt responses while being super reliable."