Patricia is Partner and Head of the Employment team at Tughans.

Patricia is a senior lawyer with extensive experience in dealing with both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Patricia specialises in TUPE/outsourcing matters and regularly advises administrators on redundancy, “pre-pack” administrations and their TUPE obligations.

Patricia is qualified in NI and ROI and works regularly with clients with an all-Ireland presence. She is also qualified in England & Wales. She has appeared in the Industrial Court on union recognition matters, in the Industrial & Fair Employment Tribunal, before the NI Court of Appeal, and before the WRC and Labour Court in Ireland and the Employment Tribunal.

Patricia is very highly regarded, with a broad range of clients across all sectors, advising on all aspects of employment law, from recruitment to dismissal. She has extensive experience in transactional work, working closely with her corporate colleagues and has broad experience in advising on mergers and acquisitions and TUPE/Service Provision Change.

Patricia regularly speaks on employment law and developments, presenting the Employment team’s breakfast briefings. She also lectures in the UU/Legal Island Post-Graduate Diploma in Employment Law and has provided tailored training and seminars on various topics and regularly writes articles, including monthly articles for an all-Ireland human resource training provider.
She is a member of the Council of the CBI in Northern Ireland as well as a member of the Employment Lawyers Group (NI).

Patricia’s clients include non-departmental public sector bodies and employers throughout the UK.