Charlotte Gunn

Associate
Charlotte takes a pragmatic approach, to work with clients to resolve their workforce challenges.
Charlotte takes a pragmatic approach, to work with clients to resolve their workforce challenges.

About

Charlotte is a collaborative and proactive lawyer.

She trained in the City and joined Stevens & Bolton on qualification in 2023. Charlotte has worked with employers, employees and pension trustees to advance her clients’ best interests, navigating complexities to reach commercial outcomes. She particularly enjoys working with HR professionals to navigate grievance and disciplinary investigations.

Her clients trust Charlotte to provide quality, thoughtful advice, explaining legal concepts in plain English with a commercial approach to support agile decision making, whether it’s in relation to an employment dispute or day-to-day HR matters or pensions advice. Charlotte also prepares full suites of employment documentation, including contracts, staff handbooks and bonus and commission plans.

Charlotte is a member of both the Employment Lawyers Association and the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Expertise
Employment and pensions Employment for individuals

Experience

  • Recent work
    • Successfully defending a major global telecoms company on a whistleblowing detriment claim;
    • Supporting a client through a worker status claim and judicial mediation;
    • Advising an employer client through an elongated grievance procedure to reach a commercial settlement;
    • Assisting and advising clients on restructuring projects and redundancy exercises
    • Advising on the employment and pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals;
    • Advising the Trustees of a pension scheme on the distribution of funds as part of a contested estate.
  • Qualifications and recognition

    Charlotte graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in Politics in 2016 and studied the GDL and the LPC MSc at the University of Law, Guildford graduating in 2019. Charlotte writes for industry press on topical employment law updates.

  • Successfully defending a major global telecoms company on a whistleblowing detriment claim;
  • Supporting a client through a worker status claim and judicial mediation;
  • Advising an employer client through an elongated grievance procedure to reach a commercial settlement;
  • Assisting and advising clients on restructuring projects and redundancy exercises
  • Advising on the employment and pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals;
  • Advising the Trustees of a pension scheme on the distribution of funds as part of a contested estate.

Charlotte graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in Politics in 2016 and studied the GDL and the LPC MSc at the University of Law, Guildford graduating in 2019. Charlotte writes for industry press on topical employment law updates.