Expertise

Helga specialises in employment law.  Her particular interests are project management, collective redundancies, business transfers and outsourcings, mergers and acquisitions, boardroom disputes,executive recruitment and terminations.  Helga has developed high level expertise in public sector change programmes and efficiency improvements.

Experience

Specialising in the management of complex projects, Helga has led multi-disciplinary teams advising clients in different sectors on the employment law, human resources and employee relations aspects of mass redundancies, outsourcings, change programmes and the establishment and operation of public bodies, including:

• The Financial Services Authority
• The Financial Ombudsman Scheme
• The Financial Services Compensation Scheme
• The Office of Communications
• Natural England
• The Commission for Equality and Human Rights

Professional

Trained at Church Adams Tatham & Co (now Thomas Eggar) 1984 – 1986
Linklaters & Paines, Assistant Solicitor 1986 – 1991
Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), Solicitor 1991 – 1992
Jaques & Lewis (now Eversheds) 1992 – 2007 (Partner from 1994)
LG, Partner 2007 – to date

Professional Memberships

Employment Lawyers' Association
City of London Law Society Employment Law Subcommittee

Publications

Regularly comments to the media on employment issues and publishes articles in HR publications such as Complinet.

Conference speaker including LexisNexis; Butterworths and others.

Ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers (where she is commended for her "can do attitude which sets the tone and ethos of her team") and appears in their Leading Experts sections.