Paul Callaghan

Paul is Head of the Employment, Pensions & Mobility group in the UK. He works with UK and North American companies, particularly from the tech, life sciences and financial services sectors.

Paul's recognised as a leading international employment lawyer, and is licensed to work in New York as well as the UK. Paul has extensive experience in complex advisory and litigation work, and advises corporate clients in the UK, US and Canada on all of their UK legal needs.

He leads our Canada desk, as well as our ‘EMEA General Counsel’ offering to North American clients.

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CV

Since 2005 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2000 - 2005 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2005 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2000 - 2005 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

1997 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales

1993 LLM, London School of Economics

1992 LLB, London School of Economics

Publications

International Labor & Employment Laws
Restrictive Covenants & Trade Secrets in Employment Law (co-author), 31 Dec 2010
Workplace Data Privacy Law (International Chapter)

Memberships & Associations

European Employment Lawyers Association
American Employment Law Council

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Awards

Chambers and Partners UK 2023

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Legal 500 UK 2023

Legal 500 UK 2022

Experience

Vinted become latest European Unicorn after closing EUR128 million Series E round financing

Vinted, Europe's largest online international C2C marketplace dedicated to second-hand fashion, on its EUR128 million Series E round financing which values the company at over EUR1 billion.The round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing backers including Sprints Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments.

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