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Hannah Netherton

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Hannah Netherton is a partner in the Employment Team. She advises on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation, people issues in transactions, outsourcings and day-to-day as well as strategic employment issues.

Hannah has particular expertise in handling employee competition and team move issues (enforcement of restrictive covenants and protection of confidential information), board level and senior executive on and off-boarding, complex workplace investigations, whistleblowing, equality and discrimination issues and collective consultation on redundancy and TUPE. She also advises on multi-jurisdictional employment disputes.

Although Hannah advises business across all of CMS’ key sectors, her practice particularly focuses on Financial Services, Technology and Life Sciences businesses.

Hannah is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and the Association of Partnership Practitioners and regularly contributes to working parties, papers and articles on topical issues, as well as speaking in webinars and on panels. She regularly provides training for her clients’ HR, compliance and in-house legal teams.

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"Hannah Netherton is exceptional, often making herself available at short notice and providing pragmatic, practically focused advice."

Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

  • A technology business in obtaining a final injunction against a departing senior sales executive who set up a competing business.
  • A financial services organisation in a multi-jurisdictional contractual bonus dispute.
  • A media business in multi-million-pound whistleblowing proceedings.
  • A private equity business in restructuring a portfolio company’s senior management team.
  • A global insurance organisation in team move proceedings against departing executives.
  • A recruitment organisation in enforcing post-termination restrictions against a departing consultant.
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Education

  • 2007 – Legal Practice Course, BPP, London
  • 2006 – General Diploma in Law, BPP, London
  • 2005 – BSc in Politics and Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol
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