Ayisha Akamo
Associate
Ayisha advises both senior executives and employers across a variety of sectors on both contentious and non-contentious matters. She works diligently and with empathy to provide pragmatic, tailored solutions.
Ayisha regularly assists senior executives on all aspects of the employment lifecycle, from entry to exit. This includes negotiating new contracts (often involving complex bonus and incentive awards), planning exit strategies and negotiating severance packages. She also provides tailored, strategic advice on difficult and sensitive challenges that arise during the employment relationship, including in relation to internal investigations, discrimination and whistleblowing issues.
Ayisha also advises LLP members and senior employees across a range of sectors on matters such as restrictive covenants, team moves and alleged misuse of confidential information.
Ayisha’s work for employers spans the full range of advisory and contentious employment matters. This includes disciplinary and grievance processes, performance management, investigations, redundancies, advising on and drafting staff handbooks, TUPE and restructures and much more.
She has significant experience litigating complex and high-profile disputes in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court and resolving disputes via alternative dispute resolution, including mediation.
Ayisha is a passionate advocate for equality and diversity across the board, both inside and outside of the workplace. She is a founding member of the Employment Lawyers Association’s (ELA) race equality committee and regularly contributes to the organisation’s briefings on equality and race related topics.
Ayisha joined Farrer & Co in 2024, having qualified as a solicitor in 2020.