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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.

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  • 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.

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    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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    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.

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  • Employment and Immigration Expertise for Financial Services

    An overview of our Employment and Immigration services within the financial services sector.

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  • 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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  • Advice for senior executives

    Conflicts at work can be distressing and daunting for a variety of reasons and trying to deal with them on your own is difficult. We can help to clarify the situation for you by providing clear, practical and confidential guidance.

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  • Employing domestic staff in the UK

    This guide sets out the key legal considerations when hiring domestic staff in the UK and seeks to help you build an employment relationship that is both effective and compliant.

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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

  • "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

  • Chambers-rank-2023

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