ANNA BIRTWISTLE
PartnerAnna Birtwistle is a Partner specialising in partnership and employment law.
Anna has an excellent reputation for advising multi-national clients, most notably those with parent companies headquartered in the US. She advises on a wide range of issues affecting their UK employees including day-to-day HR counselling, individual and group redundancies, misconduct investigations and underperformance.
Anna regularly represents clients in litigation involving unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing complaints.
Anna provides legal and strategic advice to senior executives and founders, particularly in relation to high value negotiated exits, complex cross-border discrimination issues and on the enforceability of restrictive covenants.
Anna also advises professional practices (including law firms) and their equity partners in relation to exits, restrictive covenants, and conduct and performance issues.
Anna has a particular interest in complex discrimination claims and has specialist knowledge of partner discrimination and whistleblowing issues and related cross-border jurisdictional issues.
Anna is a proficient Japanese speaker.