Bio

Joanna Blackburn is a Partner in the Employment Department where she handles all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. This includes executive terminations, discrimination, wrongful and unfair dismissal, TUPE, large scale reorganisations and contract issues. She regularly advises LLPs on partnership matters and is well versed in the issues that affect their members. Further afield Joanna’s expertise also covers the employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions and flotations. Joanna’s clients are both employers and employees and are drawn from all aspects of business, including investment banks, private equity, financial institutions, fashion and luxury goods houses, telecoms, record and television companies, plc directors and bankers. Her career, spanning more than 20 years, includes significant experience in the Employment Tribunal and High Court, and has seen her make new law in a landmark case in the Supreme Court. Joanna is the subject of glowing reviews in both Chambers and Partners, where she is described as having "a strong work ethic and sense of commercial reality”, and in Legal 500 where she is said to “unfailingly provide advice of the highest calibre”. She is listed as a leader in her field by Chambers and Legal 500 and is ranked in Chambers Global, as well as being recognised in SuperLawyers 2013 - 2015.