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Jackie Cuneen and David Rushmere work closely with our business and have an understanding of us which give us a shorthand for problem resolution. Pragmatic, and commercially adept, the advice provided is sound and timely with cover between the partners during leave for continuity.
Legal 500 2025

About Jackie

Having qualified in 1998 Jackie spent 13 years in the City as a senior lawyer at CMS Cameron McKenna, K&L Gates and Starr & Partners before joining Machins as a partner in 2013.

Jackie is a regular speaker to businesses on employment issues and is an avid supporter of Cancer charities holding regular workshops at the Breast Cancer charity, The Haven on “Working It Out – Cancer in the Workplace”

 

 

Specialist practice areas

Jackie advises a broad client base, across all industries but with a focus on TMT and financial services, from start-up entrepreneurs to SMEs and Blue Chips advising on:

  • Business as Usual employment issues such as HR training
  • Drafting and implementation of employment policy and contract
  • Business reorganisations and redundancies
  • Senior appointments and exits, preparing and negotiating Settlement Agreements
  • Dispute resolution and mediation, cases to the Employment Tribunals, High Court and Appeal Courts

On the corporate side employment issues such as

  • Buying and selling businesses
  • Specialism in TUPE business transfers and outsourcing, off shoring, competitive tendering, advising construction, facilities and real estate management, advertising, technology and BPO clients on TUPE compliance, information and consultation, due diligence and comparability of terms, harmonisation and redundancies
  • Drafting and negotiating contract indemnities and exit provisions
  • Collective redundancy programmes

Latest news by Jackie Cuneen

Hats off – avoiding deadlock in business ownership

Business owners, particularly in small businesses, can often wear too many hats. Whether it be as a shareholder, director and/or employee, each of these hats carries very different rights and responsibilities:- Shareholders: investors in the business and their relationship to each other is governed by the Companies Act and any shareholder agreement (if one is

Job Hunting and Cancer

It can’t be put off any longer. Applying for a new job is a job in itself: updating the CV, filling out the application form, then the dreaded interview questions. If you have cancer you may be putting it off because you don’t know “what to say?” or “what you should say?” or “what you

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