What our clients say
‘Helen is a calm, pragmatic, professional championing resolution and damage limitation. She is commercially astute and a sophisticated communicator.’ - Client testimonial – Chambers UK Legal Directory 2024
‘Helen is intelligent and thorough. She balances risk and practicality and delivers quickly and appropriately.’ - Client testimonial – Chambers UK Legal Directory 2024
Fantastic guidance and such sound advice. The outcome has been better than I could have ever imagined.’ - COO, Construction Sector 2024
‘The main thing for me was the dedication, candour and honesty of Helen Boddy. She was exemplary in her behaviour and offered sensitivity and professionalism. She provided a precise and objective opinion on how things stand.’ Legal 500 UK 2024
‘Helen is a consummate professional, always available and unafraid to give her advice clearly, concisely and determinedly or to probe on sensitive or unclear issues. It feels like a relationship of equals in which she knows her field completely but where she is willing to listen as well as advise and does not come to an issue with preconceptions.’ Legal 500 UK 2024
Helen is an employment specialist. She deals with the full range of employment law matters including business restructuring and reorganisation (including TUPE insourcing and outsourcing) and employment relations (including discrimination issues). She advises substantial corporate clients, SMEs and owner managed businesses and enjoys working closely with clients as an extension to the in-house team.
Helen advises on all aspects of employment work from recruitment to termination and post termination issues including restraint of trade/ non-compete and confidentiality. She advises on managing change in the workplace including restructuring, reorganisation and redundancy programmes. She also advises on shareholder disputes involving director/ shareholders.
Helen advises senior executives on hire and fire scenarios which gives her a broader understanding of the dynamics of the employment relationship. She inspires great trust in her individual clients building both a real understanding of their priorities and strong personal relationships.
With a Litigation/ Disputes background, she aims to resolve disputes without recourse to legal proceedings and to equip her clients with the tools they need to manage and minimise employment risks. Her strength is in dispute resolution although her mantra has long been that ‘prevention is better than cure.’ Acting for both employers and employees, she believes that she has a broader understanding of the dynamics of the employment relationship.
In recent years Helen has had management/board level roles which have honed her business and commercial acumen. She has been at the ‘coal face’ and has practical hands on experience of dealing with commercial and professional issues and legal HR.
Helen is a top ranking/ Band 1 lawyer for Employment and has been rated by the key legal directories as a leader in her field since 2009.
