The ‘very responsive’ team at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP advises a mix of high growth start-ups and leading global corporations. The group frequently assists on high-value corporate transactions, and benefits from its links with its US offices. Areas of expertise span advising on complex TUPE matters, disciplinary and grievance investigations, as well as trade secret and post-termination restrictions. The ’professional’ Nicola Whiteley heads the department.
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‘Nicola Whiteley is an excellent lawyer: responsive, quick, pragmatic and a joy to work with. She is someone who makes in house counsel's life a lot easier, so I can't recommend her highly enough.’
‘Employment disputes are very stressful for an employer, and the calm and sensible advice of Nicola Whiteley has helped keep us sane. She is an outstanding employment law practitioner.’
‘Nicola Whiteley: strong technical expertise, good understanding of our business, commercial, pragmatic. Very responsive and thorough. A pleasure to work with.’
‘Emma Zarb is a partner is waiting. She has masses of gravitas and great client skills. Dedicated but hard-working.’
‘Nicola Whiteley is superb – clever, technical, accessible, commercial and a thoroughly decent lawyer and human being. I have tremendous respect for her. The Orrick labour and employment team are exceptionally good and very highly respected globally.’
‘Nicola Whiteley is an outstanding employment law lawyer. I have worked extensively with her, and found her to be incredibly responsive. She provides cost-effective solutions and has a broad range of experience.’
‘Nicola Whiteley is professional, pleasant, responsive, understands the needs and practical elements of our business and gives expert legal advice and counsel. Additionally, I've relied on Nicola for independent investigation work and for legal ethics related advice. I trust Nicola entirely.’
‘Nicola Whitely is an expert in the field of employment law, as well as being incredibly down to earth in her approach to any case.’
Clients clés
- ADM Investor Services International
- Aptean, Inc.
- Cambridge Glycoscience
- Conjecture
- DigitalBridge
- GFT Financial Ltd
- Graphcore
- Hudson RPO Limited
- Kognitiv Corporation
- Lilium GmbH
Points forts
Advised Vero Labs, Inc. on employment aspects of its acquisition of Tokenise, including the employment and secondment documentation to comply with legal and regulatory requirements in relation to the key UK-based employees.
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Responsable de la pratique
Nicola Whiteley
Autres avocats clés
Emma Zarb