Hannah is an experienced international labor and employment lawyer who is qualified in the UK but who regularly advises global corporates on cross-border employment issues.
Hannah provides day-to-day employment advice on both UK and international restructures, outsourcing arrangements, and senior terminations. She also advises on the global implementation of ethics codes, issues arising from a global contingent workforce, and changes to compensation and bonus arrangements, as well as the creation of legal content for online training programs on performance management and line manager training across multiple jurisdictions. Hannah advises some of the biggest global technology companies in the world on their day-to-day global employment requirements and complex projects, including global transactions and reorganizations. She has spent time on secondment to a global technology company, discharging the role of EMEA Employment Counsel and her clients welcome this insight.
Hannah's experience includes:
- providing global employment law advice relating to the disposal by a NYSE-listed US company of its global communications business for $2.6bn involving employees in more than 30 countries
- a reverse takeover for a global manufacturing client involving more than 20,000 employees in 35 jurisdictions
- the employment law aspects of a cross-border acquisition for a substantial global communications and technology company
- providing and reconciling the legal content for a training program on performance management and basic employment law concepts across 13 jurisdictions for a global technology company
- advising a global domain registrar and web hosting company on the second-generation outsourcing of its call center functions
- advising on a tax-driven intra-group reorganization for a US corporate, involving critical engagement with employee representatives across eight European countries
- serving as global employment lead on a corporate spin involving employees and employee representatives in 30+ countries
- The Legal 500 flagged that Hannah is one to watch and is "particularly active in the IT sector"
- Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law 2003-2004
- Common Professional Examination/Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Birmingham University, 2002-2003
- BA (Hons) in History, Birmingham University, 1998-2001