Senior Associate

Gina Barlow

Languages

English

Gina is a senior associate within the Employment Team. She advises on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation, corporate transactions and day-to-day employment issues, including employee relations matters, restructuring and redundancy programmes and senior executive appointments and departures.

Gina is an experienced litigator and has successfully defended a number of sensitive and high-value claims including those for unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and claims arising out of a TUPE transfer for clients in a variety of sectors, including financial services, media, technology and hospitality. Gina regularly delivers HR training to clients in person and online.

Relevant experience

Employment Tribunal claims for a key technology client of the firm, including for unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE and whistleblowing. All claims taken to full hearing were successfully defended.
An accountancy firm client against two related race discrimination and unfair dismissal claims and obtaining a costs award for our client in the sum of GBP 10,000.
A group action holiday pay claim spanning a number of years brought by several hundred employees who TUPE transferred to our client.
Lead associate on a high value career loss case for a hedge fund client involving dual proceedings in the UK (in the High Court and Employment Tribunal) and in Hong Kong.
Lead or sole point of contact for a number of key clients of the firm, advising on their day-to-day employment issues, including complex employee relations matters, restructurings and redundancy programmes, senior executive departures and contractual arrangements.
Seconded as in-house counsel at a leading global investment bank, advising internal HR and ER teams on a range of complex legal issues, including compensation disputes, senior executive departures, redundancies and employee relations matters.
Seconded to assist the HR Director of a national accountancy firm in implementing a large restructuring programme within the HR team.

Education

2008 - Legal Practice Course (Distinction), University of Law, London.
2006 - LLB Law (2:1), University of Southampton, Southampton.

Practice Areas

Employment, Labour & Pensions Employment

Insights

Global Reach

UK Pay Gap Report 2024