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Overview
Employment law advice needs to be concise, timely and, of course, practical.
We have wide expertise in the media and entertainment sectors but are equally at home with clients from other industries, including advertising, construction, finance, charities, professional services, local authorities, and SMEs. We also regularly advise senior executives, including CEOs and partners.
Our clients are extremely busy people. Our approach is to have a deep understanding of their businesses and the environment where they work and to be their trusted advisers. Through this approach, and because of the level of our advice, we provide a first-rate, partner-led service with practical and pragmatic advice.
Expertise
Our areas of expertise include the following:
- Contracts of employment and service agreements
- Consultancy/freelancer agreements
- Settlement/termination agreements
- Employment Tribunal proceedings
- High Court proceedings
- Restrictive covenants and team moves
- Bonus/remuneration disputes
- Unfair dismissal
- Discrimination, bullying and harassment
- Whistleblowing
- TUPE and outsourcing
- Employment status/IR35
- Redundancy, restructures and insolvency
- Discipline, performance management and grievances
- Workplace investigations
- Family friendly rights and pregnancy
- Sickness and incapacity
- Subject access requests, data protection and privacy notices
- HR advice
- Corporate due diligence
- Trade union
- Partnerships and LLPs
- Employee handbooks and policies
KEY CONTACT
KEY CONTACTS
Our lawyers pride themselves on delivering high-quality pragmatic advice that is always ‘off the fence’.
Victoria Willson
Partner
Susan Thompson
Partner
Victoria Willson
Partner
The music team at Simkins is extraordinary in providing a holistic understanding of the legal aspects as well as best practices in the music industry.
Simkins are one of the leading specialist firms in music. They have an excellent team, with deep industry knowledge and a thorough understanding both of their clients’ needs and the specialist areas of law involved.
They are great - we can rely on them to be responsive and do extremely high-quality work
Simkins goes the extra mile to make its clients feel valued.
I always found the team to be very helpful, quick to respond but above all, providing very concrete and specific advice with a number of solutions for the scenario, rather than general advice in principle, which I think makes them truly unique.
The employment team attracts some of the most challenging commercial employment disputes, evidenced by it successfully obtaining high court injunctions to protect the businesses and assets of its media and entertainment clients.
