Key Contacts

Dan Begbie-Clench

Dan Begbie-Clench is a Partner at Doyle Clayton, a leading specialist firm of Employment and Business Immigration lawyers in the United Kingdom.

His practice focuses on advising multinationals and SMEs on a range of strategic Employment and Labor Law matters, including as part of corporate transactions. He is particularly noted for his counsel on redundancy processes, reorganisations, dismissals, TUPE transfers, discrimination and unfair dismissal claims, in addition to High Court claims to enforce restrictions and prevent employees from using confidential information.

Before qualifying as a lawyer Dan studied at a French university and went on to work at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Specific skills:

• Employment Law
• Employment Litigation
• Human Resources Policies
• Protecting Confidential Information
• Reorganisations & Restructurings
• Transfers of Business

Languages:

• English
• French
• Italian

Professional memberships:

• Employment Lawyers’ Association (UK)

Education:

• University of Sheffield (UK) – J.D. 1999
• Université de Nancy II (France) – J.D. 1998 French Law

Tina Wisener

Tina is the head of the Reading office. She predominantly advises corporates on HR/employment law issues and regularly provides bespoke training sessions for clients on a wide range of legal issues affecting the workplace.

Tina is an experienced employment lawyer and tribunal litigator with particular expertise in whistleblowing and complex discrimination cases. She is ranked by The Legal 500 and Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession as one of the UK’s outstanding employment law specialist advising corporates as well as senior executives.

Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Tina served as an Army Officer specialising in human resources and change management. This provides insight into both the strategic and operational issues that HR teams face and a practical understanding of the day to day pressures and challenges her clients regularly deal with.

She has been praised by many clients who quote:

“She brings so much more to the table because she has a very big depth of experience. She became a lawyer, having been in the military in HR at a very senior level. So she has the pragmatism of somebody who’s actually had to do the job. She brings the experience, she gets the situation straight away”.

Client

“She is an amazing lawyer: knowledgeable, commercial and always available. You can roll her out to chairman level with no concerns”.

Client 

“Simply put, she is excellent. Tina is practical, arrives at the right decision and provides honest feedback. Every time I have the business interact with her on a call, they always come away saying, ‘wow, is she good”.

Client

“Tina is a phenomenal lawyer with an abundance of commerciality, I feel like she and her team are a natural extension of my team. She is an excellent negotiator as well as excellent in educating and training staff, managers and HR professionals alike. I have the utmost confidence that she has the credibility and can provide the confidence required to know we are in safe hands“.

Client 

Tina is highly recommended by legal directories. The Legal 500 have described her as a “stand out partner” and Chambers & Partners have said she is “pragmatic and always commercial“.

“Tina Wisener is exceptional in her range of knowledge and experience. She responds very quickly and always offers practical and sound advice and explains everything in plain English!” 

The Legal 500

Impressed clients say: “She’s amazing, she’s so commercial and so responsive,” and add that “she’s fantastic, a great technical lawyer”.

Chambers & Partners Guide

“I would pick her out. She has had the willingness to pick up litigation work that others won’t do, like criminal work that comes out of employment work. Others wouldn’t do that, and others wouldn’t have that breadth and expertise”.

Chambers & Partners Guide

“Tina Wisener is adept at advising on matters including TUPE transfers, outsourcing, senior exits and Financial Conduct Authority matters pertaining to employment law. She is also an able advocate, with experience in handling discrimination and whistle-blowing claims”.

Chambers & Partners Guide

Areas of expertise

• Employment law issues
• Workplace investigations
• Employment disputes & tribunals
• Whistleblowing
• Discrimination advice

Professional memberships

• Employment Lawyers Association

Experience and qualifications

• Qualified in September 2001
• Specialist in Employment Law since 2001