• Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales

Experience includes:

• Advising SiriusPoint International Insurance Corporation on the employment law aspects of its proposed sale of SiriusPoint International Managing Agency at Lloyds to Mosaic.
• Instructed by a luxury hotel operator to conduct a comprehensive review of its HR related documents and practices, with a particular focus on recruitment processes and immigration related checks, management and staff training on equal opportunities and whistleblowing, the use of contractors and worker status checks, as well as range of other topics.
• Acting for an international bank, advising on the defence of an employment claim brought by an employee with regards to discrimination, unfair dismissal and payments owed.
• Instructed by a leading multinational finance and media client as their key legal advisers in responding to the coronavirus pandemic and the new variants. This involved providing timely advice in respect of 45 jurisdictions across EMEA, on a multitude of employment and labour, health and safety and data protection issues. 

Ranked in Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500

Paul is described as "solutions focused", "highly reactive to fast moving situations" and "canny and commercial".

He is also listed in the various international legal directories one of which describes him as a "thought leader" and a "leader in his field".

Paul's work has been widely published and includes:

• co-authoring A Practitioners Guide to Individual Conduct and Accountability in Financial Services Firms
• contributing a chapter in PLC on race discrimination
• contributing a chapter in Lexis Nexis on behaviour guidelines at work

In addition Paul has had a number of articles published by various employment law journals including Personnel Today, Croners, People Management and he has also been quoted in The Financial Times, The Times, The Independent and the Sunday Telegraph.

Paul undertakes regular speaking engagements on a wide range of employment and labour law issues, and engagements include Employment Lawyers' Association, the British Bankers' Association, Global HR News (Silicon Valley). Paul has also been interviewed by John Humphrys on Radio 4's Today programme (a leading UK news and current affairs programme) and on BBC News 24, Sky and CNN.

• City of London Law Society Employment Law Committee (since 2009); former Secretary to the Committee for three years
• Senior City HR Committee
• Employment Lawyers Association
• European Employment Lawyers' Association
• Global Forum of Cross-Border HR Experts