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Sinead Kelly
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Sinead Kelly
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- sinead.kelly@collyerbristow.com
Sinead acts for and advises individuals and employers on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. She is experienced in negotiating high value and often sensitive exits for senior employees. Sinead also provides day-to-day advice to employer clients on all aspects of employment law including in relation to business restructuring and reorganisation, TUPE, redundancies, holiday pay issues, restrictive covenants, data protection, performance management, as well as disciplinary and grievance matters.
Sinead has extensive experience in employment tribunal claims, including multiparty and group litigation matters, and has litigated in respect of a wide range of claims including breach of contract, redundancy consultation, equal pay, discrimination, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal and constructive dismissal.
Sinead acts for clients within a broad range of sectors, including financial and professional services, technology, design, media and manufacturing.
Sinead joined Collyer Bristow in January 2019 having qualified in 2017.
Recognition
"The advice we receive from Sinead is always just what is needed. Concise, practical and clear commercially savvy advice."
Client feedback
"We were deeply impressed with the legal advice and drafting Sinead did for us. It was swift, decisive and right to the point. With great dexterity and efficiency she fixed, to our great satisfaction, a situation which could have turned into quite a messy issue. Beyond her legal skill, Sinead remains someone we trust deeply, and who we really lean on as a professional advisor for our ever growing company"
CEO Client feedback
"You’ve been brilliant and indefatigable. Thank you for all your help throughout. It’s been a pleasure working with you"
Senior executive client feedback
"Thank you so much for all your help. I feel I’ve moved on, in no small part down to you and your team’s solid, dependable, practical and clear professional expertise and guidance."
Client feedback
Sinead's work highlights
Defending Class Action Litigation
Took the lead in defending a class action litigation case involving over 100 claimants in the transport sector. We were able to offer strategic and commercial advice to reach a favourable settlement for the client.
Employment Support to a Start Up
Advised a start up business on all employment aspects of the business and ensuring they had suitable contracts and policies in place that were tailored to their business and legally compliant. Continued to provide ongoing support with general HR matters including onboarding matters, settlement discussions, and various ad hoc queries.
Negotiating the Exit of a Senior Executive
Negotiated the exit of a CEO and director on behalf of a group of businesses. With our assistance, the client was able to change the leadership of the business swiftly and smoothly and with no disruption to the day-to-day running of the businesses.
Negotiating the Exit of Several Senior Employees at a Multi-National Tech Firm
Assisted several senior employees in securing favourable exit packages from a multi-national tech company. Our early advice ensured clients were in a strong negotiating position and we secured a substantial uplift on the initial offer as well as improving the general terms of the package.
Office Relocation
Advised a client seeking to relocate their UK office on the complex employment issues regarding changing terms of employment and consultation. We set out various options for the client taking into consideration the importance of communication with the workforce at each stage to mitigate against the risk of any potential claims.
Successfully Defended a Multi-National Company in the Employment Tribunal
Successfully defended a multi-national company in the Employment Tribunal against a claim from a former employee. We analysed the risk factors from a commercial perspective when proceeding to a full hearing and our client was delighted with the outcome.
Tailored Redundancy Advice
Advised a client on the employment aspects relating to the proposed closure of their business. We took time to understand the specific issues the business was facing and offered tailored, practical solutions including a staggered redundancy process to ensure business continuity for as long as possible, enabling a full and effective handover of all outstanding matters
Spotlight
podcast
Cracking the Code on Directors’ Service Agreements
Partner Ragavan Arunachalam and Associate Helen Ingram define good/bad leaver clauses and discuss key considerations to have when preparing them.
Nov 18 · Boardroom Conversations
video
Employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: How we can support your compliance
In this video we explain how Collyer Bristow can work with you to build a bespoke training programme and policy review to support your business' compliance.
video
Employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: A guide for HR teams & professionals
This detailed video guide is specifically for HR teams to explain the new duty; what's changed; the obligations on employers; and what HR teams need to be working on or seeking support from Collyer Bristow to implement now.
video
Employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: what do employers need to know?
In this video Sinead Kelly and Tom Herbert from Collyer Bristow's Employment law team explain how the law around sexual harassment is changing from 26 Oct 2024, the sanctions for non-compliance, and what businesses need to be doing now to comply.
video
The Future of Work & Managing a Hybrid Workforce
Issues relating to hybrid, flexible and agile working.
podcast
Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and how employers should respond
The increasing use of Data Subject Access Requests
Jan 20 · Employment Conversations
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Proposed Timeline for Employment Law ReformProposed Timeline for Employment Law Reform
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Government review of parental leave regimeGovernment review of parental leave regime
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Employment Update – April 2025Employment Update – April 2025
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News
Employment Rights Bill – Touchdown: Uncapped Risks AheadEmployment Rights Bill – Touchdown: Uncapped Risks Ahead
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Longer Reads
Future of Work: Key Updates – Employment and Immigration Seminar SummaryFuture of Work: Key Updates – Employment and Immigration Seminar Summary
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How a slow burning legal battle could cost UK supermarkets millionsHow a slow burning legal battle could cost UK supermarkets millions
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Qantas fined £43m for illegal layoffsQantas fined £43m for illegal layoffs
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Collyer Bristow strengthens offering to businesses with Employment Partner hireCollyer Bristow strengthens offering to businesses with Employment Partner hire
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Changes to the Employment Rights Bill: What do you need to know?Changes to the Employment Rights Bill: What do you need to know?
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HSBC’s Office Mandate: The Legal Implications of Reversing Remote Working TrendsHSBC’s Office Mandate: The Legal Implications of Reversing Remote Working Trends
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Restaurant fallout: How should organisations handle public scrutiny?Restaurant fallout: How should organisations handle public scrutiny?
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Quick glance: publications
- Future of Work: Employment and Immigration Update Seminar Slides
- Employment Rights Bill: Emerging Trends & Considerations
- The proactive duty to prevent sexual harassment: What do employers need to know?
- Employment and Immigration Expertise
- Employment lawyers
- Corporate Know-How Guides: Selling a Business
- Corporate Know-How Guides: Buying a Business
- Private equity/post M&A disputes
- Employment and Immigration Expertise for Financial Services
- CB Comply: Data Protection training
Publications
Future of Work: Employment and Immigration Update Seminar Slides
These slides summarise key insights from The Future of Work: A New Era – Employment and Immigration Seminar. They highlight the most significant upcoming changes in UK employment and immigration law, including the Employment Rights Bill, hybrid working practices, AI in the workplace, and Skilled Worker visa reforms. Designed for employers and HR professionals, the slides provide practical guidance on preparing for these developments, helping organisations stay compliant and strategically ready for the evolving workplace landscape.
Employment Rights Bill: Emerging Trends & Considerations
At our recent HR Conversations roundtable, we explored the key changes proposed under the Employment Rights Bill and their potential impact on employers and HR teams.
This summary outlines the current legal position, anticipated reforms, and practical steps organisations can take to prepare. Topics covered include:
Topics covered include:
- The new day-one right not to be unfairly dismissed
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The future of fire and rehire practices
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Evolving responsibilities around DEI and workplace culture
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Flexible working requests and hybrid work models
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The increasing role of AI in the workplace
Download the full summary below for insights and actionable recommendations from our Employment Law team.
The proactive duty to prevent sexual harassment: What do employers need to know?
From 26 October 2024, employers will have a new legal obligation to “take reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment. Here we explain how the law is changing, sanctions for non-compliance and what you can be doing now to prepare for the new duty in the run-up to October and beyond.
Employment and Immigration Expertise
An overview of our Employment and Immigration services.
Employment lawyers
An overview of our Employment services. Our Employment Lawyers work closely with many types of clients across a wide range of sectors providing advice on a variety of issues, whether they are HR-related, strategic, complex or contentious.
Corporate Know-How Guides: Selling a Business
We look at the flip side of price structuring, instead focusing on how a seller could secure elements of the purchase price that are delayed – or at least obtain comfort around the buyer’s ability to pay them.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
Corporate Know-How Guides: Buying a Business
When making an offer for a business, the question of when the consideration will be paid can often be just as important as how much will be paid. We look at four of the most common options available to prospective buyers (beyond upfront cash payments) and the risks/rewards posed by them.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
Private equity/post M&A disputes
Often involving complex, cross-border issues, our team has a great deal of experience in resolving the full range of post-M&A disputes.
Employment and Immigration Expertise for Financial Services
An overview of our Employment and Immigration services within the financial services sector.
CB Comply: Data Protection training
May 2023 will mark five years since the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 came into force. But all that good work your business undertook in preparation will go to waste if you don’t revisit your current data protection practices, procedures, and policies. Find out more on CB Data Protection training.
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Sinead Kelly
Senior Associate
Qualification 2017
Specialising in...
About
Sinead acts for and advises individuals and employers on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. She is experienced in negotiating high value and often sensitive exits for senior employees. Sinead also provides day-to-day advice to employer clients on all aspects of employment law including in relation to business restructuring and reorganisation, TUPE, redundancies, holiday pay issues, restrictive covenants, data protection, performance management, as well as disciplinary and grievance matters.
Sinead has extensive experience in employment tribunal claims, including multiparty and group litigation matters, and has litigated in respect of a wide range of claims including breach of contract, redundancy consultation, equal pay, discrimination, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal and constructive dismissal.
Sinead acts for clients within a broad range of sectors, including financial and professional services, technology, design, media and manufacturing.
Sinead joined Collyer Bristow in January 2019 having qualified in 2017.
Recognition
"Sinead guides us with her wealth of knowledge, in a timely manner and also with a smile and reassuring, calm nature. Sinead provided such a great service that we then went on to use other services."
Client feedback
"The advice we receive from Sinead is always just what is needed. Concise, practical and clear commercially savvy advice."
Client feedback
"We were deeply impressed with the legal advice and drafting Sinead did for us. It was swift, decisive and right to the point. With great dexterity and efficiency she fixed, to our great satisfaction, a situation which could have turned into quite a messy issue. Beyond her legal skill, Sinead remains someone we trust deeply, and who we really lean on as a professional advisor for our ever growing company"
CEO Client feedback
"You’ve been brilliant and indefatigable. Thank you for all your help throughout. It’s been a pleasure working with you"
Senior executive client feedback
"Thank you so much for all your help. I feel I’ve moved on, in no small part down to you and your team’s solid, dependable, practical and clear professional expertise and guidance."
Client feedback
work highlights
Defending Class Action Litigation
Took the lead in defending a class action litigation case involving over 100 claimants in the transport sector. We were able to offer strategic and commercial advice to reach a favourable settlement for the client.
Employment Support to a Start Up
Advised a start up business on all employment aspects of the business and ensuring they had suitable contracts and policies in place that were tailored to their business and legally compliant. Continued to provide ongoing support with general HR matters including onboarding matters, settlement discussions, and various ad hoc queries.
Negotiating the Exit of a Senior Executive
Negotiated the exit of a CEO and director on behalf of a group of businesses. With our assistance, the client was able to change the leadership of the business swiftly and smoothly and with no disruption to the day-to-day running of the businesses.
Negotiating the Exit of Several Senior Employees at a Multi-National Tech Firm
Assisted several senior employees in securing favourable exit packages from a multi-national tech company. Our early advice ensured clients were in a strong negotiating position and we secured a substantial uplift on the initial offer as well as improving the general terms of the package.
Office Relocation
Advised a client seeking to relocate their UK office on the complex employment issues regarding changing terms of employment and consultation. We set out various options for the client taking into consideration the importance of communication with the workforce at each stage to mitigate against the risk of any potential claims.
Successfully Defended a Multi-National Company in the Employment Tribunal
Successfully defended a multi-national company in the Employment Tribunal against a claim from a former employee. We analysed the risk factors from a commercial perspective when proceeding to a full hearing and our client was delighted with the outcome.
Tailored Redundancy Advice
Advised a client on the employment aspects relating to the proposed closure of their business. We took time to understand the specific issues the business was facing and offered tailored, practical solutions including a staggered redundancy process to ensure business continuity for as long as possible, enabling a full and effective handover of all outstanding matters
Spotlight
Cracking the Code on Directors’ Service Agreements
Partner Ragavan Arunachalam and Associate Helen Ingram define good/bad leaver clauses and discuss key considerations to have when preparing them.
Nov 18 · Boardroom Conversations
Employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: How we can support your compliance
In this video we explain how Collyer Bristow can work with you to build a bespoke training programme and policy review to support your business' compliance.
Employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: A guide for HR teams & professionals
This detailed video guide is specifically for HR teams to explain the new duty; what's changed; the obligations on employers; and what HR teams need to be working on or seeking support from Collyer Bristow to implement now.
Employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: what do employers need to know?
In this video Sinead Kelly and Tom Herbert from Collyer Bristow's Employment law team explain how the law around sexual harassment is changing from 26 Oct 2024, the sanctions for non-compliance, and what businesses need to be doing now to comply.
The Future of Work & Managing a Hybrid Workforce
Issues relating to hybrid, flexible and agile working.
Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and how employers should respond
The increasing use of Data Subject Access Requests
Jan 20 · Employment Conversations
Insights, News & Events
Shorter Reads
Third of UK firms deploy ‘bossware’ to track staff activity, survey revealsThird of UK firms deploy ‘bossware’ to track staff activity, survey reveals
Read more
Shorter Reads
Proposed Timeline for Employment Law ReformProposed Timeline for Employment Law Reform
Read more
Shorter Reads
Government review of parental leave regimeGovernment review of parental leave regime
Read more
Shorter Reads
Employment Update – April 2025Employment Update – April 2025
Read more
News
Employment Rights Bill – Touchdown: Uncapped Risks AheadEmployment Rights Bill – Touchdown: Uncapped Risks Ahead
Read more
Longer Reads
Future of Work: Key Updates – Employment and Immigration Seminar SummaryFuture of Work: Key Updates – Employment and Immigration Seminar Summary
Read more
Shorter Reads
How a slow burning legal battle could cost UK supermarkets millionsHow a slow burning legal battle could cost UK supermarkets millions
Read more
Shorter Reads
Qantas fined £43m for illegal layoffsQantas fined £43m for illegal layoffs
Read more
News
Collyer Bristow strengthens offering to businesses with Employment Partner hireCollyer Bristow strengthens offering to businesses with Employment Partner hire
Read more
Shorter Reads
Changes to the Employment Rights Bill: What do you need to know?Changes to the Employment Rights Bill: What do you need to know?
Read more
Shorter Reads
HSBC’s Office Mandate: The Legal Implications of Reversing Remote Working TrendsHSBC’s Office Mandate: The Legal Implications of Reversing Remote Working Trends
Read more
Shorter Reads
Restaurant fallout: How should organisations handle public scrutiny?Restaurant fallout: How should organisations handle public scrutiny?
Read more
Publications
- Future of Work: Employment and Immigration Update Seminar Slides
- Employment Rights Bill: Emerging Trends & Considerations
- The proactive duty to prevent sexual harassment: What do employers need to know?
- Employment and Immigration Expertise
- Employment lawyers
- Corporate Know-How Guides: Selling a Business
- Corporate Know-How Guides: Buying a Business
- Private equity/post M&A disputes
- Employment and Immigration Expertise for Financial Services
- CB Comply: Data Protection training
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