Caroline Carter has been a partner at Ashurst since 1998. She specialises in non-contentious and contentious employment law, advising listed companies and private equity houses on employment aspects of transactions including public takeovers, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and outsourcing exercises. Advisory experience encompasses documentation and policy drafting in conjunction with clients' risk management strategy, corporate governance and boardroom issues, senior executive appointments and terminations, advice to remuneration committees and non-executives, and training for directors; dispute resolution experience includes protecting confidential information and enforcing post-termination restrictions, team moves, bonus and incentives disputes, high level workplace and other mediation; recent employment and employment appeal tribunal experience includes whistleblowing, equality and discrimination cases.

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