“Huw Cooke stands out, he truly is an extension to our in-house legal team and is exceptional.”
Legal 500 UK 2023
About
Huw is a senior practitioner with substantial experience of advising national and international businesses on employment issues. His areas of expertise are complex employment tribunal claims, the employment aspects of corporate and commercial transactions (including outsourcing, contracting and joint ventures), redundancies and restructuring, enforcement of confidentiality and post-termination restrictions against departing employees, and negotiated departures of senior management and board members.
He regularly trains HR, in-house legal and operations teams on a wide range of employment law matters. He is also a contributor to Practical Law and Brightmine (formerly XpertHR).
Experience
- International data business: Advising a US multi-national on the UK employment aspects of a global disposal of part of its business.
- Global information business: Defending a sensitive and reputationally damaging Employment Tribunal claim.
- FTSE 100 provider of critical services: Advising on a large-scale redundancy and restructure programme following a TUPE transfer.
- Top 10 UK university: advising the legal and HR teams on a multi-party, complex set of grievances.
- Global information business: advising on an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and associated internal procedures.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (1999)
- Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
Areas of expertise
- Business immigration and global mobility
- Data protection, pay and compliance
- Employment
- Employment advisory
- Employment disputes and tribunal litigation
- Equality, diversity and discrimination
- International Trade
- Outsourcing, M&A and TUPE
- Restructuring, redundancy, and workplace change
- Trade unions and worker voice
- Workplace investigations & whistleblowing