Vanessa is a Principal Associate in the Employment, Labor and Pensions Practice Group.
She trained at Eversheds Sutherland LLP and qualified as an employment lawyer in 2009.
Vanessa is highly experienced in TUPE and has advised a number of both public and private sector clients in respect to major outsourcing projects and business aquisitions and disposals.
She advises on and negotiates the TUPE and employment-related provisions in the contractual documentation for various types of outsourcing arrangements and mergers and acquisitons.
Vanessa works closely with her clients to ensure that a smooth TUPE consultation process is implemented in respect of such transactions. She has prepared TUPE protocols and provided TUPE training for clients for these purposes.
Vanessa is highly experienced in advising clients on large-scale business reorganizations and restructures and guiding clients through collective consultation processes.
She is also experienced in equal pay and gender pay gap reporting. Vanessa has assisted clients with equal pay audits and high-profile multiple claimant equal pay claims on behalf of public sector clients.
More recently, she had advised a number of clients on the new requirements under the IR35 legislation, which has recently come into force for the private sector.
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Vanessa has advised a number of private and public sector clients in respect of major projects, including:
- advising a high-profile fast food retailer on its franchising of various restaurants, which involved providing strategic TUPE advice to its HR team
- carrying out a large-scale, equal pay audit for a high-profile public sector client, which received media coverage
- advising a number of public and private clients on major outsourcings and the TUPE-related aspects of both first- and second-generation outsourcings
- advising on a multiple claimant equal pay claim pursued against a local authority
- advising a number of private sector clients on major change and restructuring programs involving collective redundancy consultation obligations
During her career, Vanessa has presented many times at public conferences and events on a whole host of employment law issues.
- Nottingham Law Society Hammond Cup Winner, 2007
- Diploma in Legal Practice, Nottingham Law School, 2006 to 2007
- LLB Honours Law, University of Birmingham, 2003 to 2006