Catherine Turner

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Catherine Turner

Catherine Turner

Partner

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Catherine Turner

Catherine Turner

Partner

Catherine Turner

Partner

London

T: +44 (0) 20 3400 4943

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Biography

Catherine helps leading financial institutions and corporations with their advisory and contentious matters, advising on a broad spectrum of employment matters, including whistleblowing investigations, large scale rationalisation programmes, remuneration issues, sickness absence, disciplinaries, grievances and performance management. 

Catherine is highly experienced in leading and running complex, high value employment litigation matters, in particular discrimination, whistleblowing disputes and injunctions. Catherine also regularly advises on post termination restrictions and gives strategic and practical advice on severance arrangements for Board members and senior executives.

Catherine’s key sector is financial services working closely with the firm’s Financial Services Disputes & Investigations group in advising on cross-over employment and regulatory issues, including on sensitive investigations.  This experience in the financial services sector has been reinforced through client secondments.  Catherine has a particular focus on advising on remuneration issues dealing with the requirements imposed by the PRA and FCA and has a keen interest in the interplay between conduct, culture and remuneration.

Catherine speaks at external events including City HR and the Association of Foreign Banks and also speaks regularly at the firm’s client seminars.  Catherine also regularly provides tailored and practical training to in-house legal teams, HR and senior management on a range of issues.  

Catherine Turner is personable, intellectually sharp, super responsive and definitely one to watch for the future.  Highly recommended.” (Legal 500 UK 2021)

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Admissions

  • England and Wales

Related Practice Areas

  • Employment & Labor

  • Investigations

  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution

  • Regulation, Compliance & Advisory

  • Cross-border Employment Issues

  • Oil, Gas and LNG

  • Special Investigations

  • Employment Class & Collective Actions

  • Charities

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