Huw Cooke Senior Associate

Huw is a senior associate with substantial experience of advising businesses about employment and business immigration issues.

Huw’s areas of expertise include:

• the employment aspects of corporate and commercial transactions (including outsourcing, contracting and joint ventures);
• enforcement of confidentiality and post-termination restrictions against departing employees;
• redundancy and restructuring programmes;
• data protection subject access requests and privacy impact assessments; and
• strategic immigration advice and employment of overseas nationals.

Huw is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and the Immigration Law Practitioners Association. He regularly runs client training programmes and is a contributor to Practical Law.

• Advising a global healthcare company on High Court injunctions to enforce restrictive covenants against two departing senior sales managers.
• Advising a University on a multi-party, complex grievance.
• Advising a global  information company on reputationally damaging employment tribunal claims.
• Advising an international services provider in relation to a class action brought by Unison for failure to inform and consult under TUPE.
• Advising a water company over two years on an outsourcing of its IT services.
• Advising a large UK retailer on an HMRC minimum wage investigation.