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Meriel is head of the employment team. She is very attuned to the wide-ranging needs of senior executives and founders who are moving jobs, renegotiating their service agreements and (on occasion) in crisis. Along with her team, Meriel regularly acts for many senior executives and founders in the workplace who are making headlines.
Founders and senior executives are the mainstay of Meriel's practice, and she advises them on all aspects of employment and LLP law, including on contract negotiations, disputes, exits, post termination issues and agreeing compensation packages. She has extensive experience in team moves and investigations.
Meriel's work frequently involves complex, international and delicate issues for high profile clients particularly in technology, financial services, professional services, commodity trading, journalism, hospitality, and the fashion and luxury brand sectors.
Meriel's fluency in French and German together with her long standing contacts in other jurisdictions and specialisms enables her to put together a team of advisers often at short notice in order to advise those who are negotiating new contracts as well as those embroiled in investigations, crises and disputes.
Meriel is a trained mediator.
Recent recognition
Me in a minute
I would have been a hostage negotiator
Alternative career? I love what I do but if I had not been an employment lawyer I would have been a hostage negotiator.
When not at my desk, I can usually be found up a mountain. Being half Austrian means that walking and skiing are in my blood.
Track record
Candy Crush Saga
Advising the creators of Candy Crush Saga and other games when they sold their company, King.com to Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion.
Harriet Green
Advising Harriet Green on her exit from Thomas Cook.
TUPE transfer issues
Acting for a fund in a widely reported and successful team move involving historic TUPE transfer issues and post termination restrictions.
Breaches of confidential information
Acting for a well known gallery in respect of a senior director and his breaches of confidential information and fiduciary duties.
Household name charity
Acting for a household name charity to exit a chairman.
Talks
Employment Lawyers Association Annual Conference plenary session - 2016
Insight
External publications
'Do staff call the shots in a changing world?', The Times - 24 March 2015
'Non Executive Directors and the Senior Manager Regime', Board Agenda
Admissions
England and Wales, 1991
Education
University of Exeter, B.A. French & German
Languages
- English
- German
Memberships
Equal Opportunities Commission (panel of approved solicitors)
Employment Lawyers Association
Trustee of Arvon
Key dates
- Year joined: 1989
- Year became partner: 1996