Lisa is a Partner in our employment team in Dubai. She advises on employment and equality law matters, and is also part of our UK-wide immigration team.
Lisa is an experienced employment lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in the field. She has worked for Eversheds Sutherland and been a member of our global employment, labor and pensions group for the majority of her career.
She has previously worked in our Nottingham, London and Belfast offices before relocating to the UAE in 2022 to further strengthen our employment law offering in the Middle East.
Lisa has considerable experience of providing contentious and non-contentious employment law advice to multi-national companies with a presence around the globe. She advises clients across a broad range of sectors with a particular interest in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the people considerations of ESG within the financial and professional services, TMT and the industrials sectors. She is noted in the legal directories as a ‘next generation partner’ and as being a ‘strategic thinker’. The directories also note her track record of defending high-value and commercially sensitive litigation matters alongside the fact she ‘delivers for her clients with great efficiency’.
Lisa also supports businesses seeking to move their workforce around the globe and recruit new employees to ensure that all legal, visa and immigrations requirements are met.
Lisa is an accomplished presenter and has spoken on a wide range of employment law topics including restrictive covenants and confidential information, discrimination and mental health in the workplace. She is regularly invited to comment on topical HR matters.
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Lisa's recent experience includes:
- managing a global review of employment contracts and sales consultancy agreements for a sports technology company across 12 jurisdictions
- advising a global technology payment company on the immigration and taxation implications of remote working from outside an employee’s home or host country
- enforcing post-termination and non-compete provisions in the employment contract of an individual and successfully obtaining undertakings and costs from the new employer in relation to inducement of breach of contract
- drafting non-compete and post-termination restrictions
- advising clients in relation to the changes introduced to the federal employment laws in the UAE in February 2022 by Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2022
- guiding clients on changes required to contracts of employment and policies and procedures to comply with the provisions of the new laws introduced in the UAE in February 2022
- assisting with the development of bespoke training plans for managers working in the UAE, and for line managers outside of the UAE with responsibility for staff in the UAE addressing the changes to the federal employment laws
- advising on end of service gratuity entitlements for employees in the DIFC, ADGM and the UAE
- advising on the removal of a senior level executive from a listed company from its operations in the ADGM
- providing advice to an insurance company on the enforceability of post-termination restrictive covenants in the DIFC
- advising clients on the new Emiratisation requirements which come into force in January 2023
Over her career, Lisa has presented hundreds of times at various public and client conferences on a wide range of employment law topics including TUPE, restrictive covenants and confidential information, discrimination, and Tribunal practice and procedure.
Lisa is a regular commentator on employment law issues in Northern Ireland on local radio and TV news channels.
She has also lectured on the Ulster University Post-Graduate diplima in Employment Law since 2017.
- Ranked as next generation partner in Legal 500
- The Legal 500 United Kingdom Next Generation Partner 2022
- Member, Employment Lawyers Group in Northern Ireland
- Member, Employment Lawyers Association of England & Wales
- Member, CBI's Employment and Working Affairs Committee in Northern Ireland
- Diploma in Legal Practice, Nottingham Law School, 1997-1998
- LLB (Hons) Law, Nottingham Law School, 1993-1997