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Sarah Ozanne

Of Counsel

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

Sarah Ozanne is Of Counsel in the Employment team and has specialised in both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters for over 15 years.

She works with clients in a broad range of industry sectors, regularly advising on senior executive appointment and departures, restructuring and redundancy programmes, restrictive covenants and team moves as well as employment aspects of disposals and acquisitions, outsourcings and integration, including TUPE in private and public sector context. She is also an experienced litigator handling employment tribunal and High Court litigation.

Sarah is regularly published in legal and HR journals and trade publications. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, the European Employment Lawyers Association and the CBI Employment Lawyers Network. 

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"Clients say they value Sarah for her ‘practical and considered advice’ and ‘great level of support’"

Legal 500

Relevant experience

  • A multinational US headquartered organisation on changes to flex benefit and pension arrangements affecting its 18,000 strong UK workforce. 
  • An international insurance organisation on a project to restructure its European operations, including coordinating input from 24 jurisdictions.
  • UK banks on HR aspects of new individual accountability regime
  • A retail asset manager on board level changes including allegations of whistleblowing.
  • An insurance client on breach of confidentiality and post termination restrictions and enforcement action.
  • An international consumer products company on closure of its UK manufacturing operations.
  • A global leader in engineering on integration issues following its acquisition of a major planning, design and management consultancy and managing an on-going mandate for provision of global HR advice.
  • A major construction firm in a series of union backed claims concerning the application of TUPE. 
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Memberships & Roles

  • Member, Employment Lawyers Association
  • Member, CBI Employment Lawyers Network
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Education

  • 1995 - LPC, College of Law, London
  • 1994 - LLB, Lancaster University, Lancaster
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01/12/2023
Collective redundancies and possible criminal liability: Supreme Court...
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Workforce reporting
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13/06/2023
Healthy Horizons Webinar Series
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07/06/2023
Modern Slavery: a key element of the ‘S’ in ESG
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06/04/2023
Modern slavery
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21/02/2023
ESG: Strengthening governance through better workforce reporting
In the final part of our ESG series looking at employment law and ESG, we consider what employers can do to strengthen their workforce reporting as part of good gov­ernance.Work­force reporting means publishing...
26/09/2022
CMS advises Anzo Group on the sale of Roxor Gaming
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18/05/2022
Queen's Speech announces introduction of Modern Slavery Bill
It’s been over 2 years since the government announced its proposals to make changes to the transparency in supply chain requirements under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, but it has now proposed the Modern...
16/03/2021
Government takes first steps to tighten reporting requirements on modern...
The government has now created its own central register for modern slavery statements, in line with one of the commitments it made in response to its consultation on how it would enhance reporting requirements...
06/01/2021
CMS advises HUBER Packaging Group on sale to Envases Group
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30/09/2020
Modern slavery: firms face tougher stance on transparency in supply chains
The government has published its long-awaited response to the consultation on proposed changes to the requirements for transparency in supply chains under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The response endorses...