Employment for Financial Institutions
Our Employment team has significant experience advising private banks, wealth managers and other financial institutions. We understand the unique challenges they face in balancing regulatory, reputational, legal, and commercial considerations when addressing employment matters.
Our financial services expertise
We advise financial institutions on a wide range of employment law matters, including:
- Restructures, reorganisations and acquisitions
- Disciplinaries (including matters involving conduct rule and fitness and propriety related issues)
- Performance management procedures
- Grievances
- Sensitive whistleblowing investigations
- Employee recruitment and departures
- Regulatory compliance in relation to TUPE transfers
- Drafting contracts, handbooks and regulatory references
We also have a proven track record of successfully defending financial institutions in sensitive and potentially high value Employment Tribunal proceedings.
Additionally, we offer regular training on key topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion, managing investigations, whistleblowing and regulatory reference drafting, to name just a few. We also publish a weekly blog covering topical employment law issues to ensure our clients remain up to date and can horizon scan around future developments.
Our London-based Employment team is one of the few that excels in representing both employers and senior executives. This dual perspective gives us a distinct advantage when advising our employer clients, allowing us to better anticipate and navigate an employee’s next steps.
Recent work highlights:
- Successfully defending a private bank against a complex and high value whistleblowing claim in the Employment Tribunal.
- Advising another private bank in relation to an investigation of an anonymous and sensitive whistleblowing disclosure.
- Advising an investment bank on a redundancy process and restructure from its commencement to finish.
- Providing bespoke training to an investment bank on handling internal investigations.
