AREA OF PRACTICE
Corporate
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Biography
Nicola Kerr is a Partner in Brown Rudnick’s Corporate and Employment Practice Groups.
She advises employers and senior executives of banks, private equity houses, hedge funds, broker-dealers and family offices on contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Nicola has particular experience in the following areas:
- High value executive severance
- Boardroom disputes
- Restrictive covenants and Team moves
- Partnerships and LLPs
- Discrimination
- Whistle blowing
- Redundancy and Collective consultation
- Employment law aspects of major corporate transactions
- Business transfers and the impact of TUPE –Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations
- Confidentiality and Data protection
- Disciplinary and Grievance issues
- Corporate restructuring
- Drafting
- Strategic issues
Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Nicola was a partner and head of the European employment practice at King & Wood Mallesons (formerly SJ Berwin) for over 15 years.
Awards
Education
Emmanuel College, Cambridge – B.A., Law, 1985
Bar Admissions
Employment Lawyers Association
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Awards and Honors
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Chambers & Partners UK 2020 ranks Nicola in Band 3 in Employment: Senior Executive. Nicola is "a really thoughtful and supportive lawyer who provides excellent advice."
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Chambers & Partners UK 2019 ranks Nicola in Band 3 in Employment: Senior Executive. Nicola is "very empathetic from the outset and is very experienced, which was reassuring and encouraging."
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Chambers & Partners UK 2018 ranks Nicola in Band 3 in Employment: Senior Executive. Nicola "is very attentive, always makes herself available and has a straightforward and pragmatic approach." She advises both senior executives and employers on employment law matters.
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Chambers and Partners UK ranks Nicola in Employment: Senior Executive and clients assert that she is "assured, with the ability to help clients feel relaxed and in control."
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Legal 500 said: “Incredibly commercial” and “superb department head with the ability to read difficult situations well”
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Nicola is ranked in Best Lawyers 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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Nicola is rated by Super Lawyers.
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Selected for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters' London Super Lawyers List 2013 - 2015. The list recognises solicitors who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice and was published in various publications (including in a supplement to both the Telegraph magazine and the Law Society Gazette). It is limited to only 5% of solicitors within London.
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Nicola has been selected for a Lawyer Monthly Women in Law 2019 Award for "Employment Law".
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