Nicola studied law at King’s College, London.
Nicola is a senior partner, with significant experience across the breadth of employment law and is well-known in the market for advising clients on their most challenging, reputationally sensitive and high-stakes people-related matters.
Nicola frequently advises clients on their strategic projects, investigations, and reviews, such as those relating to conduct, governance, workplace culture, and mandates involving the board and senior leadership. She is a solutions-focused and strategic adviser who works with clients to ensure the best outcome is reached in the circumstances.
She tackles the most complex of employment litigation and advice, with extensive experience of High Court and Tribunal litigation. In addition, Nicola advises her clients on crisis management, the employment aspects of purchases, related hirings, executive terminations and appointments, restrictive covenants and team moves, as well as managing large global projects in relation to redundancies, compensation reviews and the employment aspects of regulatory investigations.
She is also a frequent speaker and commentator on employment issues with a particular interest in whistleblowing, workplace equality and workplace corporate culture. Nicola is also a CEDR accredited mediator and is a non executive director on two listed companies. The nature of Nicola’s practice and the sensitive nature of her work means that we cannot publicly share the work she does.
Nicola’s work highlights include:
With finger on the cultural and societal pulse of the workplace and decades of experience advising large private and listed organisations, Nicola has a keen interest in the future of work and is a trusted advisor to many as the zeitgeist on workplace culture and conduct continues to shift. In 2015, Nicola spearheaded Linklaters’ ‘listen up’ campaign aiming to re-focus the corporate world’s whistleblowing discussion on internal behaviours and responses to whistleblowing. She was awarded Times Lawyer of the Week for her work in this area.
In recent years, Nicola has been at the forefront of advising businesses on workplace culture, diversity and inclusion, and workplace activism. In 2017 Nicola was the vanguard advising businesses on workplace culture following the MeToo movement and led the firm’s Culture Conference for businesses. She is a frequent speaker and commentator on these issues and is well-known in the market for her expertise in these areas.
Having been the Global Head of the Employment & Incentives practice and a Partner at Linklaters for over 25 years, Nicola has extensive experience managing her own business and advising stakeholders and peers in a variety of roles.
She is also a CEDR accredited mediator and is experienced in arbitration, mediation and negotiation, alongside her external portfolio of board roles: equipping Nicola with a unique skill-set which she brings to her mandates, and differentiate her from market peers.
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