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Chambers and Partners UK 2023

Employment (employer) - Band 5: Helen Farr is praised by clients and peers for her employment knowledge, including for her noteworthy experience of advising clients operating in regulated markets. "We regard Helen as an excellent adviser because she has provided useful insights to some of our key business challenges."

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Helen’s practice covers the full spectrum of employment law and human resources strategy with extensive experience in complex advisory and litigation projects. Helen has particular expertise of working with clients in the financial, tech and professional services sectors.  Over recent years, Helen has guided many banks and solo regulated firms through the complexity of the employment issues related to the introduction of the senior managers & certification regime and on cross over employment and regulatory issues.

Helen’s focus is on strategic matters such as workplace discrimination of a sensitive nature, equal pay, team moves,  boardroom disputes and employment cases involving financial services regulatory issues.  She is also well versed in dealing with industrial relations issues.

Helen has considerable experience of guiding businesses through the complexities of mergers and acquisitions and restructurings.  She has many years of experience guiding businesses through the application of TUPE including on major outsourcing projects.

She has worked with a number of organisations on the Implication of the General Data Protection Regulation for managing employee data. 

She prides herself on having a great commitment to client service and finding innovative solutions to employment and human resources issues.  Helen often provides tailored training sessions to meet the needs of her clients.

Helen is a regular speaker and employment conferences and frequently writes for leading publications on employment matters. She also appeared as a panellist on Radio 4’s the 'Bottom Line' and has commented on employment issues on the Today programme, PM and the BBC World Service.

Helen is also a Diversity and Inclusion board member, saying "Gender diversity is only one element of ensuring we have an inclusive workplace and that Taylor Wessing is a great place to work. I plan to promote the intersection between gender diversity and the great work all our networks are doing to create a truly inclusive workplace."  

Helen is a recognised expert in employment law in Chambers, Legal 500 and Chambers Global and is an elected member of Taylor Wessing's supervisory council.

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CV

Since 2020 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2013 - 2020 Partner, Fox Williams
2003 - 2013 Partner, Pinsent Masons
2000 - 2003 Senior associate, Pinsent Masons
1993 - 1999 Associate, Fladgate Fielder
1993 - 1999 Associate/Senior associate, Blake Morgan
1993 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1991 Law Society Finals, College of Law, York
1990 LLB Law, University of Hull

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Since 2020 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2013 - 2020 Partner, Fox Williams
2003 - 2013 Partner, Pinsent Masons
2000 - 2003 Senior associate, Pinsent Masons
1993 - 1999 Associate, Fladgate Fielder
1993 - 1999 Associate/Senior associate, Blake Morgan

Ausbildung

1993 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1991 Law Society Finals, College of Law, York
1990 LLB Law, University of Hull

Publikationen

How to crack the largest bonus gap in the financial services sector, 17 May 2018, Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence

GDPR: the challenges facing the tech market, 18 June 2008, The Lawyer

Have companies underestimated the impact of GDPR…?, 23 May 2018, City AM

Don’t expect grace period for GDPR enforcement, 2018, Compliance Week

Brexit prompts asset managers to revamp distribution strategies, Financial Times

UK regulator plans public directory of risk takers, Ignites Europe (part of FT)

Survey findings show size of Brexit turmult, Financial Times

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Chambers and Partners UK 2023

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Employment (employer) - Band 5: Helen Farr is praised by clients and peers for her employment knowledge, including for her noteworthy experience of advising clients operating in regulated markets. "We regard Helen as an excellent adviser because she has provided useful insights to some of our key business challenges."

Legal 500 UK 2023

Employment (employers) - Ranked: ‘The reason we use Helen Farr and her team is because of their excellent client focused approach. I know that we can contact them at any time and get an immediate response. We have used them for all our employment and other HR related matters and we always receive consistently excellent service and advice.’

Legal 500 UK 2022

Employment - employers

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