Navi is a Senior Associate based in our Milton Keynes office and provides strategic and commercial advice on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues.
Navi advises national clients, including a number of commercial household brands, in a wide range of sectors including, logistics, retail, higher education and energy. Navi supports individuals on negotiation of their settlement agreements and advising on post-termination restrictions.
Navi manages complex employment tribunal claims for employers, which includes defending allegations of unfair and constructive unfair dismissal, holiday pay and discrimination claims. Navi has a particular interest in employee data protection matters and is a member of the employment data privacy team.
Navi prides herself on knowing her clients’ businesses and building strong relationships with HR teams. This provides her with valuable insight into the business, enabling an understanding of a client’s preferred outcomes and for Navi to provide pragmatic, tailored advice.
Navi’s recent experience includes:
- successfully negotiating a complex, multi-claim disability discrimination claim which had been running for over three years for a logistics client, avoiding a 12 day final hearing. This involved working as an extension of the Legal and HR Team, providing strategic advice in relation to a claimant who had raised over 15 grievances, and issued five separate tribunal claims;
- advising a global finance software technology platform in the management of a TUPE-related, business merger and subsequent redundancy process;
- management of complex disability discrimination claims for a large employer with a valuation by the claimant close to £1 million;
- providing strategic day-to-day advice on employee relation issues, including in respect of long-term absence issues, disciplinaries, grievances and redundancies;
- advising on the protection of clients' business interests in connection with the exits of senior employees and team moves, including successfully managing the exits of key employees;
- regularly carrying out advocacy in the Employment Tribunal, successfully representing clients at case management and substantive preliminary hearings in relation to jurisdictional issues;
- advising and supporting on collective redundancy processes as well as managing individual redundancy consultations;
- supporting and working closely with corporate colleagues in relation to the employment aspects of national and global sales, acquisitions and investments, including advising on due diligence, contracts/service agreements, restrictive covenants and settlement agreements;
- drafting employment agreements and policies and ensuring compliance with all aspects of employment legislation; and
- advising businesses on a range of employee data protection issues, including managing complex data subject access requests.
Navi regularly writes and delivers training to clients on a range of employment law issues and is a regular speaker at Shoosmiths’ national employment webinars, regional CIPD sessions and is a contributor to articles published by the firm.
Navi has been elected as the Milton Keynes Office Employee Representative and regularly advises and supervises on a pro bono basis through the Milton Keynes’s Citizens Advice Bureau and the Midlands Employment Law Clinic. Navi is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Navi trained at Mills & Reeve and qualified at Fieldfisher LLP in 2017. Navi joined Shoosmiths in December 2018 and was promoted to Senior Associate in September 2021.