Our Team
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Dan Wise - Partner & Founder
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Kaajal Nathwani - Partner
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Tessa Robinson - Legal Director
Tessa was previously a Legal Director at a boutique law firm and brings with her a wealth of experience in both employment and business immigration law. She advises organisations of all sizes across all sectors, specialising in companies with a global workforce.
As well as advising on all aspects of employment law, she also regularly advises organisations on sponsor licence applications and business-related visas (with a 100% success rate!). With workforces being located more remotely and globally than ever before, this dual expertise places her in the unusual position of being able to provide both areas of advice to companies.
She prides herself on her down-to-earth approach to employment issues, and has a particular interest in guiding organisations through what can sometimes seem like complex and onerous obligations in relation to redundancy and TUPE. She also regularly provides advice to individuals on complex disputes and exits. She regularly provides training to her clients and has been credited with “somehow making GDPR fun and interesting”.
Outside of work she can usually be found with her two horses and two cats, plotting her next travel adventure, or trying out new sports.
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Penny Morrison - Senior Associate
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Louise Purcell - Senior Associate
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Simon Newsham - Tax and Share Scheme Consultant
Having qualified as a solicitor in 2000 Simon worked at both Macfarlanes and latterly in a head of department position at Dorsey & Whitney. Simon has worked in his own capacity in recent years through his own independent tax consultancy.
Simon is dual qualified as both a solicitor and chartered tax adviser (qualifying with KPMG in 1998). His practice includes providing corporate and tax advice to a diverse range of domestic and international corporate and private clients.
Simon’s focus in his work for clients of Osborne Wise is to support our specialist employment law practice advising on a range of corporate and commercial agreements such as carried interest award schemes, LTIPs, as well as setting up share option schemes and advising on the corporate elements of our employment litigation and non-contentious matters.
Contact: info@osbornewise.com
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Jinan Younis - Diversity, Equality & Inclusion and Culture Specialist
Jinan is an award-winning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Culture specialist. She supports organisations to meaningfully engage with complex questions around trust, inclusion, and belonging. Jinan’s clients have ranged from multinational corporations to global foundations and NGOs addressing topics such as allyship and championship, building inclusive cultures, and barriers to employment and progression. She has supported the rollout of DEI initiatives across global markets, trained senior leaders on inclusive leadership approaches, and provided specialised training to Employee Resource Groups. Jinan regularly appears on panel events discussing culture and equity in the workplace, she has written for publications such as The Guardian, New Statesman, and gal-dem and has contributed chapters to two books, "I Call Myself a Feminist" and "I Will Not Be Erased".
Jinan was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University, with a degree in Theology.
Contact: info@osbornewise.com
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Kate Marchant - Human resources Professional
Kate is an experienced HR professional with a long career working in senior HR roles in the private sector. Latterly as an HR Consultant she supports a wide variety of businesses with their people issues.
Kate’s areas of expertise is across all HR related practices and she has a specialism acting as an out-sourced HR specialist running investigations into grievance, disciplinary and other internal processes.
Kate is an Associate member of the CIPD and a qualified and accredited workplace mediator. In addition to her employee relations expertise, Kate also provides fractional HR support to businesses who have no, or minimal, in house HR support.
Contact: info@osbornewise.com
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Katie Maycock - Professional Trainer & Leadership Coach
Katie is a professional trainer and leadership coach. The focus of Katie’s training portfolio is around health and well-being in the workplace. Training topics include creating and implementing corporate strategies in managing ill health absence; the broader corporate approach to dealing with and avoiding burnout; and the positive impacts of how to minimise stress and maximise profitability. She works in a variety of market sectors including finance and technology.
Katie is also a frequent contributor to podcasts and other broadcasting outlets, and was recently interviewed by author and podcaster Mo Gawdat on “Mo Gowdat: Unstressable with Katie Maycock”. She is also a creator for the JAAQ platform.
Contact: info@osbornewise.com
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Emma Stanley - Office Manager
Emma joins us from a diverse background having worked in the operational side of universities and financial training companies. Emma manages our firm’s back office function with a focus on accounts, billing and finance.
Contact: estanley@osbornewise.com
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Sona Mehta - Data Protection Consultant
Sona qualified at Bird & Bird at the height of the dot com boom before moving to be one of three in-house lawyers at Blockbuster Entertainment Ltd, where she primarily supported the marketing, advertising and operations teams. Having acted for one of the first Nectar reward card partners, Sona developed an enthusiasm for data protection. Sona went on to become a law lecturer on the professional vocational programmes at City St. George's, University of London and has in recent years founded her own independent privacy consultancy.
Sona's focus in her work for clients of Osborne Wise is to support our specialist employment law practice advising on a range of data protection matters, such as privacy policies, notices, international transfers and ongoing GDPR compliance
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Bethan Jones - Consultant Solicitor
Bethan is a Consultant solicitor with the firm, having previously been a partner in the Employment team at Michelmores LLP. She supports the team advising a wide range of organisations on the full remit of HR issues, including restructuring and redundancies, business sales and acquisitions, and day-to-day employee relations issues such as grievances, absence, performance management, and disciplinary processes.
Bethan’s work is split between defending Employment Tribunal litigation, supporting on corporate transactions, and providing strategic advice to manage staffing issues and to assist with planning HR policy.
Contact: bjones@osbornewise.com