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Anthony Rees

Partner
Office Location Head

Anthony is a Partner in our Employment Labor & Pensions group and Office Location Head in the Cardiff Office.

Anthony advises employers across both the private and public sectors on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. He has a solid record of assisting businesses with high-profile dismissals of senior individuals and conducting investigations on behalf of companies into allegations of financial wrongdoing, bullying and harassment and relationship breakdowns within teams.

Anthony’s experience also includes advising on multi-jurisdiction business restructuring exercises, programs to introduce new terms and conditions of employment across multi-sited businesses and advising organizations facing whistleblowing allegations, including advising upon related media and stakeholder interest.

His recent highlights include advising a US business on the restructuring of its European senior management team, advising a global aircraft control business headquartered in New York on an outsourcing project involving 29 jurisdictions across EMEA, assisting a global mining business on the introduction of new pay and bonus arrangements across the UK and Europe in response to Covid 19, representing an international business in the Court of Appeal regarding Blacklisting Regulations, successfully defending claims brought against a company in the transport sector by drivers seeking employees/worker status, conducting an investigation into allegations of bullying and harassment amongst senior leadership team at a leading institution within the education sector and successfully defending central government-related body on a test case involving the implementation of new ways of working and reward across the organization.

Anthony is a passionate supporter of the Eversheds Sutherland Unlocked Academy and regularly attends schools and colleges raising awareness on how to access a legal career and the opportunities it presents for personal fulfillment.  He is a coach and mentor to individuals both within and outside the firm.  Anthony also sits on interview panels for the Eversheds Sutherland vacation placement selection program.

  • Band 1 leading individual Chambers Legal Directory
  • Band 1 and Hall of Fame status Legal 500 Legal directory
  • Acritas Global star lawyer
  • Office Location Head – Cardiff office, ELPG
  • Pro-Bono Partner, Eversheds Sutherland Cardiff office
  • Top Ranked Chambers UK 2018, 2019
  • The Legal 500 United Kingdom Leading Individual
  • Qualified in 1988
Anthony Rees

Partner

Office Location Head

Anthony Rees

Partner

Office Location Head

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