Georgia Derbyshire is an English-qualified solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Labour and Employment Practice Group, specialising in all areas of UK employment law.

Ms. Derbyshire’s practice includes a mix of contentious litigation, advisory and transactional work on a full range of employment issues, with an emphasis on cross-border employment matters. She advises on ARD/TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions, contractor matters, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants, protecting confidential information from misuse by current and former employees, redundancies, whistleblowing, discrimination, settlement agreements, responding to regulatory requests for information and COVID-19 employment issues.

Ms. Derbyshire has also represented clients in relation to disputes before the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and arbitral tribunals, including the defence of a UK retailer in the largest private sector equal pay claim to be heard in the English courts. In addition to her employment practice, she has experience in internal compliance investigations and general commercial litigation before the High Court.