Tania is a Partner specialising in employment law. Her clients range from large companies to SMEs and owner managed operations. She also acts for individuals from all walks of life including financial services, media, technology, real estate and professional services.
Her skill is to identify her client’s objectives and then find a solution to achieve them as quickly and effectively as possible.
Tania has been a Partner at Collyer Bristow for over 14 years heading up the Employment Team and for five years headed the Dispute Resolution Department. She remains on the firm’s Management Board having been elected for the last eight years to serve in this role.
Prior to joining Collyer Bristow, Tania has worked elsewhere in London as both a dispute resolution and employment law specialist. She has been qualified as a solicitor for 29 years.
Tania is a Partner specialising in employment law. Her clients range from large companies to SMEs and owner managed operations. She also acts for individuals from all walks of life including financial services, media, technology, real estate and professional services.
Her skill is to identify her client’s objectives and then find a solution to achieve them as quickly and effectively as possible.
Tania has been a Partner at Collyer Bristow for over 14 years heading up the Employment Team and for five years headed the Dispute Resolution Department. She remains on the firm’s Management Board having been elected for the last eight years to serve in this role.
Prior to joining Collyer Bristow, Tania has worked elsewhere in London as both a dispute resolution and employment law specialist. She has been qualified as a solicitor for 29 years.
Work highlights
For Employers
- Resolving a dispute for a logistics company facing a class action brought by hundreds of former employees over its alleged failure to carry out a fair redundancy consultation during the pandemic.
- Successfully applying for a restraining injunction to protect our client’s business interests at London Heathrow airport.
- Successfully defending a client from a class action brought by 40 employees claiming unpaid holiday pay.
- Advising a commercial client on the transfer 200 agency workers into their business and the impact of TUPE.
- Amending terms and conditions of employment of a large workforce within a recruitment company.
- Winning a case for a client in the Employment Tribunal facing allegations of disability and race discrimination.
- Litigation involving the exit of various senior executives from a bank and achieving a positive resolution.
- Enforcing post termination restrictive covenants for a property company following a team move to a competitor.
- Drafting a suitable whistleblowing policy for an on-line fashion brand.
For Employees
- Securing a substantial settlement sum representing future loss of earnings to retirement for a solicitor who had been constructively dismissed and subjected to age discrimination.
- Negotiating numerous six figure settlement sums for employees in the financial services sector.
- Representing an employee subjected to sex and pregnancy discrimination and achieving a very significant settlement.
- Protecting the reputation of a teacher wrongly accused of misconduct and obtaining a substantial settlement sum on their behalf.
- Negotiating favourable terms in a new service agreement for a senior executive joining a FinTech company.
- Advising an employee on their rights regarding protected disclosures they had made about health and safety within a manufacturing company.
- Representing the CEO of a media company on their unfair dismissal, age and sex discrimination.
Qualification date: 1993
