Joanne Davies

Partner
Contact details

07803 753918

029 2068 6121

Joanne Davies is commercial, efficient and client focused.

Legal 500 UK, 2024

Jo is a partner in the Employment, Pensions and Immigration group. She provides general employment advice from our Cardiff office.

Main areas of practice

Jo’s work includes maternity rights, discrimination issues, sickness absence, non-performance, gross misconduct and new areas of employment law.

She also specialises in advising on employment issues arising out of large scale procurements, outsourcing, commercial contracts, mergers, acquisitions and post-acquisition integration and is an expert on advising in relation to TUPE issues.

Expertise

Career

Joanne was admitted to the Roll in 1988

Contact details

07803 753918

029 2068 6121

Accreditations
Memberships
  • The Law Society
  • The Employment Lawyers’ Association

Significant Experience

  • Providing a major PLC client with employment advice in relation to in excess of 50 acquisitions of office services businesses and companies. Joanne plays a major role in all such acquisitions involving employees and liaises between the acquisition team and the individual managers who are responsible for integrating the businesses. She assists in formulating integration plans including reorganisation of the businesses following acquisition, any redundancies which may result and where appropriate the harmonisation of terms and conditions of employment.
  • Advising global media group, Tinopolis, in relation to the TUPE matters arising from various acquisitions including the acquisitions of Firecracker Films, Passion Distribution and Pioneer Productions Group.
  • Advising a large manufacturing client in relation to a collective redundancy process arising out of a proposal to cease manufacturing in the UK. 
  • Advising in relation to the TUPE process involved as a result of a proposal to transfer certain functions to elsewhere in the world. This included advice in relation to dealings with their union, employees and various businesses abroad. 

"Joanne has always been supportive and provided excellent balanced advice."

Chambers and Partners, 2024

"She devises practical and proportionate solutions for clients and shows an innovative flare."

Legal 500 UK, 2023

"Joanne's commerciality and work ethic are impressive."

Chambers and Partners, 2023

"She is a commercially minded and very sensible lawyer who goes straight to the point and gets things done."

Chambers and Partners, 2020

Team head Joanne Davies has particular expertise on TUPE issues, including as it relates to outsourcing in the public sector.

Legal 500, 2020

Insights by Joanne


newsletters

19 December - Joanne Davies

It's been another eventful year. Significant and wide-ranging employment legislation has been passed on issues as varied as industrial action, flexible working and sexual harassment. We have also seen, for...

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newsletters

13 December - Joanne Davies

It's been an eventful year including a change of monarch, a few changes of Prime Minister and a cost of living crisis. While the coronavirus pandemic no longer dominates the...

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articles

5 November - Joanne Davies

As part of the UK Government's emergency legislation measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, a significant change was made to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), effective from 13 March 2020. If...

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