Kirsty Ayre

Partner and head of the Sheffield employment team. Kirsty advises on all areas of employment law, with particular expertise in employment tribunal litigation, senior exits and strategic change programmes in the financial services, construction and university sectors. She provides pragmatic and solutions-driven advice to clients, and has spent time on secondment to the HR function of a major bank. Recent work includes: representing some of the UK’s largest banks and insurance companies in employment tribunal litigation; advising a global organisaiton on the sensitive exist of its financial director; managing large-scale redundancy programmes involving hundreds of exits; advising one of the world’s largest banks on a high-profile change to its pension and redundancy schemes; providing employment law support on strategic and sensitive outsourcing projects; and adising on collective and union issues. She sits as a fee-paid employment judge in the London Central employment tribunal, and is also a Scottish qualified solicitor, having spent ten years living and working in Edinburgh. · Irwin Mitchell

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Kirsty Ayre is a partner and head of the Sheffield employment team at Irwin Mitchell who advises on all areas of employment law, with particular expertise in employment tribunal litigation, senior exits and strategic change programmes across financial services, construction and higher education. She sits as a fee‑paid employment judge in the London Central employment tribunal and is a Scottish qualified solicitor who spent ten years living and working in Edinburgh.

Practice areas

EmploymentLitigationPensions

Office

England

Irwin Mitchell · Partner and head of the Sheffield employment team. Kirsty advises on all areas of employment law, with particular expertise in employment tribunal litigation, senior exits and strategic change programmes in the financial services, construction and university sectors. She provides pragmatic and solutions-driven advice to clients, and has spent time on secondment to the HR function of a major bank. Recent work includes: representing some of the UK’s largest banks and insurance companies in employment tribunal litigation; advising a global organisaiton on the sensitive exist of its financial director; managing large-scale redundancy programmes involving hundreds of exits; advising one of the world’s largest banks on a high-profile change to its pension and redundancy schemes; providing employment law support on strategic and sensitive outsourcing projects; and adising on collective and union issues. She sits as a fee-paid employment judge in the London Central employment tribunal, and is also a Scottish qualified solicitor, having spent ten years living and working in Edinburgh.

England

Expertise

Employment tribunal litigationSenior exits and executive departuresRedundancy and large‑scale workforce restructuringsCollective and trade union issuesOutsourcing and employment support on strategic projectsFinancial Services sector (including banks and insurance companies)Construction sectorHigher education sector

Education

London School of Economics and Political Science
University Robert Schumann, Strasbourg — Diplome d’Etudes Juridiques Françaises (1990)
LLB (Law and French Law, 1991)
College of Law, York — Law Society Finals (1992)

Admissions

Scottish qualified solicitor
Solicitor (qualified 1996)