Paul McGrath
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Employment: Employer
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About
Provided by Paul McGrath
Practice Areas
Partner Paul McGrath advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors in all areas of contentious and non-contentious UK employment law. His practice covers all aspects of UK employment legislation and day-to-day employment matters, including appointments and terminations, employment status and worker classification issues, employee handbooks and policies, employee data privacy, disciplinary and grievance issues, and restructuring and redundancy exercises.
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Paul advises on the employment aspects of all types of corporate transactions, including share sales, business transfers and joint ventures, not least the implications of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations
Paul also advises on the full range of contentious employment matters including claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract.
Paul has particular experience advising on HR-related privacy and data protection issues, including in relation to whistleblowing hotlines, internal investigations and disciplinary matters.
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Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Chambers Review
UK
Paul McGrath is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery who has a wide practice spanning the healthcare and financial services sectors, among others. He regularly assists employers with TUPE matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is very pragmatic and business oriented."
"Paul is very easy to work with and provided good legal advice for the matters he was assisting us with."
"He is very pragmatic and business oriented."
"Paul is very easy to work with and provided good legal advice for the matters he was assisting us with."