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.