Emma Morgan is a partner in the People and Reward team and is based in the Manchester office. Emma specialises in both employment and corporate immigration law.
During her career Emma has worked with clients in a variety of sectors and has particular experience of advising clients in the Consumer & Retail, Mobility, Manufacturing and Logistics, Financial Services and Living Sector.
On the employment side, Emma advises on a broad spectrum of complex employment issues including executive terminations, TUPE transfers and reorganisations as well as discrimination and other complex tribunal claims in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Emma also has considerable experience of dealing with the employment aspects of Corporate, Restructuring and Commercial Property transactions and in relation to commercial contracts advising on the implications of TUPE and other employee issues as well as advising on contractual disputes.
On the Corporate Immigration side, Emma regularly advises organisations on the options for bringing overseas nationals into the UK including Skilled Worker visas, on eligibility to work requirements and on audits and Compliance and Risk more generally. Emma also advises employers on sponsor licence applications, reporting duties and maintaining licences and, when the worst happens, crisis management including suspensions or potential revocations.
Emma also provides training to HR professionals, in-house lawyers and compliance and resourcing teams on both employment and corporate immigration law.
Emma routinely works with in-house teams in respect of both employment and corporate immigration matters and understands the impact of issues on clients’ businesses and works with them to find pragmatic and practical solutions. Emma has over 17 years’ experience as a specialist employment solicitor having trained with Simmons & Simmons and then qualified into employment with Kimbells LLP (now Freeths LLP) in 2002. In February 2019 Emma joined Shoosmiths as a partner having worked at DAC Beachcroft in Manchester.