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Sasha Lormant

Principal Associate

Sasha is a Principal Associate in the Employment, Labor and Pensions Group specialising in both employment law and business immigration. 

She leads on immigration in the Cambridge office and has a particular focus on employment litigation and complex, large scale redundancy projects. 

Sasha is a Senior Associate in our Human Resources practice group having qualified in 2009. She provides advice and support to employers on employment law and business immigration and is immigration Sector Lead for Health & Life Sciences. 

Sasha acts for a broad range of clients across a number of sectors, including life sciences, transport and retail. She has completed a secondment at the in-house legal team of a major client in the transport sector.

She advises businesses and organizations on strategic people management issues in relation to matters such as managing complex investigations, disciplinaries and grievances, discrimination issues, sickness and absence management, and business restructuring and reorganization.

Sasha has particular experience in handling Employment Tribunal claims, and covering issues such as unfair dismissal, breach of contract, whistleblowing, and discrimination of all types. She manages a number of client service teams managing clients' employment tribunal claims — one of which has up to 85 claims at any one time.

She also provides immigration advice to businesses, including obtaining permission for applicants to live and work in the UK, advising on employer obligations as licensed sponsors, and illegal working and right to work. Sasha regularly advises on the implications of Brexit and supports clients with their global immigration queries that require the use of local international counsel. 

Sasha has a wealth of experience as follows: 

  • On behalf of clients in the transport and life sciences sectors, defending complex, reputationally important and significant value claims including claims with associated strike action and long running Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal litigation.
  • Being part of a team which delivers an international immigration helpline to a retail client with project management across 70 jurisdictions. 
  • Providing mock audits/dawn raids in relation to Right to Work & Sponsor compliance.
  • Leading and supporting on a number of large scale restructure/transformation projects involving collective consultation obligations. This involves advising on site closures, site re-locations, changes to terms and conditions and headcount reductions.

 

Sasha enjoys delivering training and regularly speaks at client and public seminars on immigration and employment law.

  • Diploma in Legal Practice, The University of Law, 2005-2006
  • LLB (Hons) Law, University of Kent, 2001-2004 
Sasha Lormant

Principal Associate

Sasha Lormant

Principal Associate

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