Ed Cotton

Ed joined TLT in December 2013 and is a partner in the firm's Employment team (ranked Tier 1 in Chambers 2019). 

He has over 20 years’ experience as an employment lawyer advising  employer clients on a wide range of strategic, complex and sensitive employment law issues, but also on business as usual matters. Ed has particular experience dealing with restrictive covenant issues and team moves, both in the High Court and arbitration.

He regularly advises on executive appointments and terminations, the defence of litigation in Employment Tribunals, reorganisation and redundancy and TUPE issues relating to corporate transactions and outsourcing.

Ed acts for a range of clients including retailers, professional services firms, recruitment businesses and clients in the manufacturing, transport and leisure sectors.

Ed qualified in 1996.

Jurisdiction: England and Wales

Recent Experience

• Acting for Boohoo on the appointment of their new CEO;
• Acting for a PLC recruitment business on the enforcement of post termination restrictive covenants, including obtaining injunctive relief;
• Advising a manufacturing business on a large scale restructuring and redundancy process;
• Acting for a bank negotiating complex TUPE provisions in outsourcing agreement;
• Acting for a retail client in the defence of multiple race discrimination/unfair dismissal claims.