About
About
Premium city advice
We bring you the market knowledge of a full, multi-service firm with the independence of a boutique.
Our exceptional advice is based on our unrivalled experience of acting for City clients.
If you are a City business, our lawyers have likely advised you or your competitors.
If you are a City individual, our lawyers have likely advised the business you are leaving, joining or with which you are in dispute.
We have worked at the world’s largest professional services firm, PwC, and the top-ranked Employment law practices at Allen & Overy and Simmons & Simmons. We have been seconded to the HR and legal teams at UniLever, Tate & Lyle, Shire Pharmaceuticals, the BBC, BlackRock, Barclays and Societe Generale.
without the city premium
No matter the complexity of your challenge, or the personalities involved, our expertise, candour and understanding deliver elegant solutions that work for you legally and commercially. Yet, our lean operating model means we can charge a fraction of the rates applied by other City firms without any sacrifice in the quality of advice you receive.
Services
Services
The Full Range
Employment and Partnership issues for individuals and businesses fall broadly into three categories and we cover them all:
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Bringing, defending and settling claims in the Employment Tribunal and High Court.
advisory & investigations
Advising on and investigating all people issues including: COVID-19 issues, SMCR, exits and recruitment, team moves, misconduct, grievances, diversity and discrimination (particularly #MeToo and mental health disability), pay (including equal pay, holiday pay, City regulation, gender pay reporting and National Minimum Wage), redundancies and whistleblowing matters.
transactions
We are TUPE experts, advising buyer, seller, target, management and key staff on all Employment and Partnership matters arising out of any M&A or outsourcing transaction.
Working Together
Working Together
Anytime, Anywhere
In addition to our Notting Hill offices, we have workspaces and meeting rooms at 38 locations across London. We’d be delighted to host you or to come to your offices.
With a fully cloud-based document and practice management system, we can work securely with full functionality anywhere with Wi-Fi or with 4G coverage.
Secure access to your own file
All our documents are held in the cloud with bank grade encryption. Each of our clients can access their files and important documents via a dedicated client portal.
working with other advisors
We have spent our careers working in multi-specialist and multi-firm teams.
We can coordinate advice from different sources and weave it into an intelligible and practical route map for you to achieve your goals.
Team
Louise Coyne, Partner
Louise is an English-qualified solicitor and is an officer of the Senior Courts of England & Wales.
Louise acts for both individuals and businesses. Louise’s practice is focussed on professional services firms, retail and media businesses as well as financial institutions. Louise specialises in advising on senior executive and partner exits.
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Louise is a particularly experienced Employment and Partnership litigator. She has fought successfully many multi-day, multi-million pound discrimination claims in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. She has also litigated in the High Court and unusually, but very beneficially, has also been a witness at Employment Tribunal hearings.
Louise is a specialist adviser in relation to the investigation and management of discrimination cases, including sexual harassment and bullying.
Louise has advised several large corporates on: executing large-scale, cross-border restructurings; managing and minimising potential large-scale holiday pay and national minimum wage liabilities; and undertaking equal pay audits and investigations.
Louise is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) and is a member of ELA’s Standing Committee on Sexual Harassment. Louise has a Certificate in Employment and Workplace Mediation Skills Training from the Centre of Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR).
Louise studied at the University of Alberta.
Sean Coyne, Partner
Sean is an English-qualified solicitor and is an officer of the Senior Courts of England & Wales.
Sean acts for both individuals and businesses. Sean’s practice is focussed on PE firms, asset managers, investment banks and listed corporates.
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Sean’s non-contentious work includes: sensitive investigations; SM&CR; boardroom disputes; senior management appointments and exits; team moves; advising on TUPE in relation to a variety of transactions and outsourcings; pay and bonus matters (including City regulation); redundancy exercises.
Sean has handled, won and favourably settled claims in the Employment Tribunal (including those for unfair dismissal, unlawful discrimination, and whistleblowing) and the High Court (including bonus, breach of forward contracts, breach of restrictive covenants, breach of confidence, and breach of fidelity claims).
Sean is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA). He is a member of ELA's working party on changes to off-payroll worker tax rules and has been appointed as an ELA Mentor to support junior ELA members develop their careers. Sean has also been a mentor in a programme for senior partners at a global, City firm.
Sean studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Community
Coyne Partners is proud of its collaboration and association with a number of bodies working hard to improve our communities.
We also support our clients on their socially responsible activities on a pro-bono basis, including their involvement in the #10000BlackInterns initiative.
Rights of Women is a women’s charity working in a number of ways to help women through the law. Its vital services aim to provide women with the legal advice and information they need to understand and use the law and their legal rights. We also work to improve the law for women and increase women’s access to justice.
MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people. MindOut works to improve the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ communities and to make mental health a community concern. MindOut welcomes all LGBTQ people and those who may not identify as LGBTQ including men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women, intersex people, people who previously identified as trans and people who are questioning their sexual and/or gender identities.
Open Age works across Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham to enable anyone aged 50 or older to sustain their physical and mental fitness, maintain an active lifestyle and develop new and stimulating interests.
The Employers’ Initiative on Domestic Violence is a growing network of employers that come from a wide variety of sectors, working collectively to take action on domestic abuse.
The Employment Lawyers Association is an apolitical organisation representing the views and interests of just over 6,000 specialist, qualified employment lawyers in the UK. Since its inception in 1992, ELA has become the voice of authority in employment law. ELA’s uniqueness rests in the depth and wealth of knowledge of its diverse membership, and its neutrality on political issues.
Contact
Full contact details for each team member are set out above.
Our offices are located in Notting Hill, just outside the entrance to Notting Hill Gate underground station (District, Circle, Central).
Address
United House
9 Pembridge Road
Notting Hill
London W11 3JY