Sian Hoare
UK Guide 2025
Star Associates : Employment
Star Associates
About
Provided by Sian Hoare
Practice Areas
Sian is an employment and corporate immigration specialist in the Employment Team. She provides strategic and commercial advice to a wide range of clients ensuring that she always invests time into understanding her clients’ business needs providing advice in a format which is ‘on point’ and easy to digest.
Sian provides advice to clients on grievances, disciplinary issues, discrimination issues, collective redundancies, enforceability of restrictive covenants and TUPE transfers. Sian represents clients at Tribunal and provides support to the corporate team with M&A work. Sian advises on corporate immigration from right to work checks to obtaining and maintaining sponsor licences.
Recent work includes:
•representing a manufacturer of contact lenses in defending a claim of constructive unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal.
•advising on a complex and sensitive investigation of a group of employees who had set up a WhatsApp group on their company phone and had made sexist and racist remarks;
•supporting clients in the hospitality sector in the harmonisation and implementation of new contracts involving significant changes to employee remuneration including the consultation process;
Career
Sian trained with Shoosmiths and qualified in 2007. She was promoted to Senior Associate in 2017.
Chambers Review
UK
Sian Hoare advises clients on strategic and commercial employment matters. She can provide day-to-day advice, as well as helping with more complex issues such as Employment Tribunal claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sian is calm and collected; she has been an absolutely fantastic support and is a trusted advisor."
"Sian is very knowledgeable and offers us a great level of support and advice in a timely manner. She is great at resolving matters successfully and in our favour."
"Sian is amazing, her knowledge is exceptional. She offers pragmatic advice and has a no-nonsense approach."
"Sian is a delight to work with and has a really good approach to explaining different matters."
"Sian is an expert in her field, she balances this with a client and business-focused approach."
"Sian is calm and collected; she has been an absolutely fantastic support and is a trusted advisor."
"Sian is very knowledgeable and offers us a great level of support and advice in a timely manner. She is great at resolving matters successfully and in our favour."
"Sian is amazing, her knowledge is exceptional. She offers pragmatic advice and has a no-nonsense approach."
"Sian is a delight to work with and has a really good approach to explaining different matters."
"Sian is an expert in her field, she balances this with a client and business-focused approach."