Robert has specialised in providing non-contentious and contentious employment law advice since 1995 for public and private sector clients, including advice on reorganisations and redundancies, executive recruitment and exit and defending employers in the Employment Tribunal in relation to high value discrimination, equal pay and ‘whistleblowing’ claims. Robert has a particular interest in outsourcing and PFI/PPP transactions and is co-author of the Employment and Pensions Chapter in the Butterworths PFI Manual.

Advising on Health and Defence Sector PFI/PPPs including the Pathfinder “Retention of Employment Model (“ROE”) Walsgrave Hospital Project, Barts Hospital, MOD Main Building and Allenby & Connaught Accommodation Project.

Advising Maersk on the post-completion integration and rationalisation of the P&O Nedlloyd Business including multi-site collective dismissal and TUPE consultation exercises.

Successfully defending and resolving, including via mediation, claims of whistleblowing, equal pay, sex , race and disability discrimination against international financial institutions.