Chris Coombes
Chris is a Senior Associate at Littler and advises clients on the full spectrum of employment issues and has broad experience working on global employment projects for clients with international operations. Chris helps clients find pragmatic, commercial solutions, especially in the context of settlement negotiations and post-termination restrictions. Chris has a particular focus on the platform economy and technology sectors, having spent the latter part of 2022 on secondment to Uber’s legal team. Chris regularly advises clients in relation to redundancies, business transfers, grievances, misconduct, performance, data protection and trade union issues. He has experience in leading complex, sensitive settlement negotiations and has also worked on multiple high-value employment tribunal claims, with a particular focus on discrimination and whistleblowing. · Littler
About
Chris is a Senior Associate at Littler who advises clients on the full spectrum of employment issues, with broad experience on global employment projects for organisations with international operations. He focuses on pragmatic, commercial solutions in settlement negotiations and post-termination restrictions and has particular experience in the platform economy and technology sectors (including a secondment to Uber in late 2022).
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Modern Languages (German) and Linguistics, Jesus College, University of Oxford (2010–2014)
- Graduate Diploma in Law, Oxford Brookes University (2014–2015)
- Legal Practice Course, BPP (2015–2016)