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Emma Sweetman

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1-3 Charter Square
Sheffield
S1 4HS
United Kingdom
Languages English

Emma is a Senior Associate in the Employment team. She joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 2015 and qualified into the Employment team after training there for eight months. She advises employers and senior employees on a wide range of general advisory and contentious matters, and on the employment aspects of corporate and property transactions. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.  

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Memberships & Roles

  • Employment Lawyers Association 
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Education

  • 2015 – Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield
  • 2014 – Postgraduate Diploma in Law, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield
  • 2013 – BA(Hons), History, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield
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19/02/2024
CMS advises Harley Academy on investment by Rockpool
International law firm CMS has advised Harley Academy, the UK’s leading provider of higher education in aesthetic medicine, on an investment from private equity firm Rockpool Investments. Harley Academy...
25/07/2023
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill receives Royal Assent
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17/07/2023
Striking Times: As You Were…
As reported in our previous Law-Now series: Striking Times ((1) Preparing for industrial action, (2) Managing industrial action, and (3) The current industrial relations landscape in the UK), in the midst...
07/09/2022
CMS advises LiveScore on £50m strategic investment from Ringier
International law firm CMS has advised LiveScore on a strategic investment from Swiss-based media and technology company Ringier, valuing the business at £500 mil­lion. Foun­ded in 2019 by former Gamesys...
13/07/2022
Striking Times (2): managing industrial action
As we discussed in our previous Law-Now Striking times: preparing for industrial action a wide variety of employers are facing the potential for industrial action this Summer. Since our last report, more...
21/06/2022
Striking times: preparing for industrial action
The current landscape The UK is experiencing the biggest rail strike in three decades called by the RMT (The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers), bringing major upheaval to the wider...
21/04/2022
CMS advises on investment in technology solutions provider WSD
International law firm CMS has advised the founder and shareholders of WSD on a majority stake investment by Bowmark Capital (Bowmark), the mid-market private equity firm. WSD is a leading provider of...
02/09/2021
CMS advises NewRiver on sale of Hawthorn Leisure to Admiral Taverns
International law firm CMS has advised NewRiver REIT plc (NewRiver), a London Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust, on its sale of the entire issued share capital of Hawthorn Leisure REIT...
29/03/2021
National Minimum Wage – Nightmare for the care sector is over: sleep-ins...
Employers in the care sector can breathe a huge sigh of relief. The Supreme Court has unanimously held that workers who are required to sleep at or near their workplace, and be on call, are only working...
01/02/2021
The future of working from home in the post-COVID world
At the beginning of 2020, employers and employees were hastily forced into a new working environment. Nearly half of people in employment did some work from home and the vast majority of those did so...
11/09/2019
ICO revises its guidance on time limits for responding to DSARs
Recently, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) updated its guidance on time limits for responding to a data subject access request (DSAR) and other individual rights requests. In practice this...