Our employment services
Irwin Mitchell can offer you expert legal services tailored to the unique needs of high-net-worth individuals, including players, executives, and stakeholders.
Our Private Wealth team is nationally recognised and recommended by the Chambers High Net Worth 2025 Guide for our expertise in estate planning, tax advisory, and wealth structuring, helping sports bodies and their personnel manage complex financial portfolios, international assets, and succession planning.
In high-profile exits, whether involving players, managers, or executives, our employment team, led by Elaine Huttley, excels in managing reputational risk, contractual disputes, and financial settlements. Our litigation and employment teams are experienced in handling sensitive departures, including those involved in the media or complex contractual obligations. We offer strategic guidance on severance packages, confidentiality clauses, and post-exit planning, ensuring that transitions are smooth. Our ability to combine private wealth expertise with employment law and dispute resolution makes us a valuable partner for you in navigating the intricacies of high-profile personnel changes.
Our Employment Law team has extensive experience advising football clubs and sporting bodies on a wide range of employment law matters. We understand the unique challenges faced by organisations operating in the sports sector and regularly provide strategic and pragmatic guidance tailored to their needs, in accordance with relevant sporting and governing body rules.
Our expertise includes supporting clubs with complex employment issues, including high-profile exits. Most recently, we advised a Championship football club on the successful removal of its senior management team, including the CEO, COO, and Director of Football Operations and Recruitment. We also supported the club through the exit of its First Team Manager and Assistant Manager, ensuring minimal legal risk and operational disruption.
This work demonstrates our ability to manage sensitive and high-stakes employment transitions with discretion and efficiency and highlights our capacity to support cross-border clients with UK employment law compliance.