Michelle Bruce
Senior Associate
Corporate & Commercial Employment Law
Michelle started her legal career by training as a Barrister but chose to cross qualify as a Solicitor in 2012. Michelle’s first role was as a Paralegal at London firm Leigh Day & Co, principally working on multi-party equal pay claims against local authorities. Throughout her experience, Michelle has carved a niche in discrimination law, with a particular interest in claims of disability; race and gender (including gender identity) in particular.
Michelle undertakes a broad spectrum of both contentious and non-contentious work including drafting and negotiating contracts; drafting employment handbooks and/or staff policies; advising on redundancies as well as grievance and disciplinary issues. Michelle has also successfully negotiated both entry and exit packages for senior level employees, as well as advising employers on settlement agreements.
Michelle has represented a mix of both employee and employer clients at hearings in the employment tribunal in a range of including unfair dismissal; discrimination and unlawful deduction claims (amongst others).
Michelle has delivered training for the ELA on Settlement Agreements and in-house training on Gender Identity issues and Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Employees.
More about Michelle…
What is the most daring/scariest thing you have done?
Learning how to eat and breathe fire. A close second was learning to ride a joust with the knights of Middle England this year.
Tell us something that not many people know about you?
I have a house full of rescue animals – including a rescue cat; two street dogs from Romania and another dog that I rescued whilst on holiday in Jordan in 2019. And despite sometimes needing to use a walking stick, I have been practising Taekwon-Do for over 2 years now and became a National Champion at the ITF National Competition in October 2023.
If you weren’t a lawyer or in your current profession, what would you be doing?
If I was not a lawyer, I would be a historian specialising in the Medieval or Tudor period.
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Regulatory support
Our team will assist you in ensuring compliance with all corporate laws and regulations, so that the business can move forward on a sound financial and legal basis.
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Corporate reorganisation & restructuring
We are company commercial law experts advising on all aspects of your businesses structure to meet your commercial objectives. Including preparing for exit, merge with another entity, consolidating your balance sheet, increase equity, implement an MBO or MBI, expand the business model or dealing with a financial crisis.
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Commercial contracts and advice
Our team provides legal solutions for commercial trading relationships, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements at various stages in the supply chain.
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Buy-ins & Buyouts
Trust our commercial experience for a smooth transition during management buy-ins and buyouts. We are also on hand to assist with owner fall outs and finance advice to support growth expansion.
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Investment – Private Equity and Venture Capital
Our team provides the guidance you need to secure essential funding for your growing businesses.
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Corporate & Commercial
Welcome to our dedicated page for Business Legal Support Services. Our corporate and commercial solicitors provide high-quality legal services to various clients, including owner managed businesses, aspirational small and medium sized businesses, large companies and PLC’s.
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Amanda Ritchie
Senior Associate
Corporate & Commercial
Michelle started her legal career by training as a Barrister but chose to cross qualify as a Solicitor in 2012. Michelle’s first role was as a Paralegal at London firm Leigh Day & Co, principally working on multi-party equal pay claims against local authorities. Throughout her experience, Michelle has carved a niche in discrimination law, with a particular interest in claims of disability; race and gender (including gender identity) in particular.
Michelle undertakes a broad spectrum of both contentious and non-contentious work including drafting and negotiating contracts; drafting employment handbooks and/or staff policies; advising on redundancies as well as grievance and disciplinary issues. Michelle has also successfully negotiated both entry and exit packages for senior level employees, as well as advising employers on settlement agreements.
Michelle has represented a mix of both employee and employer clients at hearings in the employment tribunal in a range of including unfair dismissal; discrimination and unlawful deduction claims (amongst others).
Michelle has delivered training for the ELA on Settlement Agreements and in-house training on Gender Identity issues and Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Employees.
More about Amanda…
What’s the most daring/scariest thing you have done?
I went hill walking with my family and I found myself Traversing steel cable fixed to a rock face above a fast flowing welsh river, people who know me would not think I would do such a thing but
did it! I have also spent many a winter skiing with my family where I have felt on top of the world.
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Neil Gibbs
Senior Associate
Corporate & Commercial
Michelle started her legal career by training as a Barrister but chose to cross qualify as a Solicitor in 2012. Michelle’s first role was as a Paralegal at London firm Leigh Day & Co, principally working on multi-party equal pay claims against local authorities. Throughout her experience, Michelle has carved a niche in discrimination law, with a particular interest in claims of disability; race and gender (including gender identity) in particular.
Michelle undertakes a broad spectrum of both contentious and non-contentious work including drafting and negotiating contracts; drafting employment handbooks and/or staff policies; advising on redundancies as well as grievance and disciplinary issues. Michelle has also successfully negotiated both entry and exit packages for senior level employees, as well as advising employers on settlement agreements.
Michelle has represented a mix of both employee and employer clients at hearings in the employment tribunal in a range of including unfair dismissal; discrimination and unlawful deduction claims (amongst others).
Michelle has delivered training for the ELA on Settlement Agreements and in-house training on Gender Identity issues and Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Employees.
More about Neil…
What’s the most daring/scariest thing you have done?
Accepting the role of Managing Partner professionally and personally, bungee jumped from a hot air balloon.
What was your first job?
Working on a building site ferrying cement to the bricklayers – a great summer job, but not so great in the winter months.
Tell us something that not many people would know about you?
I have completed the Three Peaks challenge three times and aspire to complete Surrey Hills 100.
If you weren’t a lawyer or in your current profession, what would you be doing?
As I am quite entrepreneurial in outlook I would have founded my own business and have retired long ago!
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Claire Le Mouëllic
Senior Associate
Corporate & Commercial
Michelle started her legal career by training as a Barrister but chose to cross qualify as a Solicitor in 2012. Michelle’s first role was as a Paralegal at London firm Leigh Day & Co, principally working on multi-party equal pay claims against local authorities. Throughout her experience, Michelle has carved a niche in discrimination law, with a particular interest in claims of disability; race and gender (including gender identity) in particular.
Michelle undertakes a broad spectrum of both contentious and non-contentious work including drafting and negotiating contracts; drafting employment handbooks and/or staff policies; advising on redundancies as well as grievance and disciplinary issues. Michelle has also successfully negotiated both entry and exit packages for senior level employees, as well as advising employers on settlement agreements.
Michelle has represented a mix of both employee and employer clients at hearings in the employment tribunal in a range of including unfair dismissal; discrimination and unlawful deduction claims (amongst others).
Michelle has delivered training for the ELA on Settlement Agreements and in-house training on Gender Identity issues and Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Employees.
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