Caroline Doran
Partner
020 7842 1495 Email cad@royds.com
Caroline is a partner in the employment team and an employment specialist. Caroline is a commercial lawyer who looks for cost effective solutions and is always focussed on getting great results for her clients. She acts for businesses (including PLCs, smes and start-ups).
She also advises senior executives, CEOs and employees on exits, board room disputes, bonus and all areas of employment law including restrictive covenants, FSA investigations including whether someone is “fit and proper” and compromise agreements.
Caroline trained with Berwin Leighton Paisner and previously worked at Rooks Rider and Fox Williams. Caroline’s legal opinion has been quoted in numerous respected journals including The Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian and the IOD’s Director magazine.
Expertise and Clients
Advising businessesCaroline’s clients benefit from her experience in advising those involved in financial services, aviation, charities, construction, communications and PR, hedge funds, technology (including start ups), large scale retailers, specialist property developers, insurance and outsourcing industries. She has helped dismiss CEOs and other board members with complex remuneration and reward packages, as well as advising on union recognition, large scale relocations and redundancies.
Advising employeesCaroline has helped resolved complex boardroom disputes and has advised CEOs, founders and board members.
Caroline is experienced in advising those working in the City including people who have left or are joining Nomura (Lehman), Credit Suisse, RBS (ABN AMRO), Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Rothschilds and numerous financial services companies. As such she has expertise in complex and high value bonus and profit share disputes. Her individual clients are often high profile and successful in their chosen field who have graced the front page of the Financial Times, The New York Times or the Sunday Times (business section).
She has helped senior executive directors and employees negotiate six and seven figure payouts; increasing one person’s redundancy payout from £70,000 to £500,000 (after the employee had been advised by another City firm to accept the lower payment).
She is regularly referred clients from leading City, American and European law firms on conflict or specialist employment advice as she is known to be a safe pair of hands who can be trusted to deliver excellent service.
Memberships
Financial Times Non Executive Directors Club.
Employment Lawyers Association;
Professional Irish Network (IPN).
