Managing Associate
Vicky specialises in employment law. She advises clients across a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on the area of recruitment agencies.
Expertise
Vicky supports businesses providing employment law and HR advice on a full spectrum of employment issues. She works closely with HR teams to develop their knowledge and experience and to gain a full understanding of the operational issues of the business she is representing.
Vicky also acts for Claimants, with a focus on company directors and senior management. She provides advice regarding service agreements, restrictive covenants and negotiates exits and settlement agreements.
Vicky also advises in relation to data protections issues. The work she undertakes is across the board, including in an employment context, commercial contracts and other related areas.
Recent experience
- Successfully defending a group action claim including several claimants in connection with a protective award arising from a TUPE transfer and obtaining a costs order.
- Management of a large scale and complex redundancy and restructuring programme involving several hundred employees.
- Advising on a complex disciplinary case involving the dismissal of a director and their exit as a shareholder.
- Providing advice regarding TUPE in a complicated outsourcing scenario and giving guidance as to when changes to activities carried out before and after a service provision change can prevent a relevant transfer.
- Negotiating a substantial exit for a director and shareholder of a business, together with a deal regarding the restrictive covenants in place.
Career history
Vicky trained with Slater Heelis Solicitors and qualified in 1999 before moving to Wacks Caller Solicitors to focus on employment law in 2002. In 2004 she moved to work for the Co-operative Group in a large inhouse legal team. In August 2008 she moved to Hill Dickinson Solicitors for a year before joining BBS Law in September 2009.
