Lara Fatemi

Lara is a Partner in Osborne Clarke's employment team and is based in London. 

She is particularly experienced in providing transactional, advisory and litigation employment advice to private equity houses and their portfolios.

Lara advises on a wide variety of employment matters including complex employment disputes, post termination restraints, harassment and discrimination investigations, senior executive dismissals and restructurings.

Lara is particularly experienced in providing complex and strategic employment advice to private equity funds and their portfolio companies. She also has a great deal of experience of advising on the employment side as part of corporate transactions (including private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investments, IPOs and on the buy and sale side of M&A transactions). 

Her clients include a range of PE funds and portfolios, VC companies and listed businesses. Lara also regularly advises senior management teams on a variety of employment issues including negotiating new employment terms, exit related bonus documentation and settlement agreements, as well as providing advice in relation to navigating post termination restraints.

Lara has coordinated large cross jurisdictional projects and has spent time working in Osborne Clarke's Milan and Cologne offices. Whilst she supports clients across a range of sectors, she has particular expertise in advising businesses in the TMC and Financial Services sectors.

"Lara is incredibly responsive and a joy with which to work. [She] has done a wonderful job of making [this matter] as smooth as possible and – dare I say – enjoyable at times."

Chief Legal Officer of a Global Consultancy Company