Sarina Mahal

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Senior Associate

Employment

+44 (0) 77 3839 1282

Expertise

Sarina is an experienced employment law adviser specialising in providing clear, commercial and pragmatic advice across the full range of employment matters. She advises on redundancies and restructurings, contractual issues, restrictive covenants and settlement agreements, and supports corporate teams on employment aspects of transactions and wider corporate projects.

She advises both employers and employees, with most of her experience being respondent-side. This gives her a strong understanding of employer risk, commercial pressures and real-world decision-making.

Before qualifying as a solicitor, Sarina spent two years working in HR. This background gives her valuable insight into the practical and commercial realities faced by businesses and HR teams and informs her solutions-focused approach to employment law advice.

Sarina Advises

  • Employers across a range of sectors, including business owners, senior management and HR teams
  • Employees at all levels, particularly on exit arrangements and contractual issues

Experience Highlights

  • Advising employers on day-to-day employment law queries and ongoing HR issues
  • Supporting businesses through redundancy exercises and restructurings
  • Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, policies and procedures
  • Advising on and negotiating settlement agreements
  • Providing employment law support on corporate transactions and international projects
  • Client secondment to McKesson UK, working alongside in-house teams on employment and commercial matters
  • International secondment to Dubai, supporting corporate and cross-border projects

Career History

  • Senior Associate, Michael Cummins Employment Solicitors (September 2023 – August 2024)
  • Associate, Eversheds Sutherland – Employment Group (September 2016 – October 2020)

Sarina trained and practised at Eversheds Sutherland, spending seven years progressing from paralegal to Associate within the Employment Group. Her training included seats in Financial Services Dispute and Investigations and Employment, alongside a client secondment to McKesson UK and an international secondment to the firm’s Dubai office within the Corporate team.

Expertise

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Sarina is an experienced employment law adviser specialising in providing clear, commercial and pragmatic advice across the full range of employment matters. She advises on redundancies and restructurings, contractual issues, restrictive covenants and settlement agreements, and supports corporate teams on employment aspects of transactions and wider corporate projects.

She advises both employers and employees, with most of her experience being respondent-side. This gives her a strong understanding of employer risk, commercial pressures and real-world decision-making.

Before qualifying as a solicitor, Sarina spent two years working in HR. This background gives her valuable insight into the practical and commercial realities faced by businesses and HR teams and informs her solutions-focused approach to employment law advice.

Sarina Advises

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  • Employers across a range of sectors, including business owners, senior management and HR teams
  • Employees at all levels, particularly on exit arrangements and contractual issues

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising employers on day-to-day employment law queries and ongoing HR issues
  • Supporting businesses through redundancy exercises and restructurings
  • Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, policies and procedures
  • Advising on and negotiating settlement agreements
  • Providing employment law support on corporate transactions and international projects
  • Client secondment to McKesson UK, working alongside in-house teams on employment and commercial matters
  • International secondment to Dubai, supporting corporate and cross-border projects

Career History

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  • Senior Associate, Michael Cummins Employment Solicitors (September 2023 – August 2024)
  • Associate, Eversheds Sutherland – Employment Group (September 2016 – October 2020)

Sarina trained and practised at Eversheds Sutherland, spending seven years progressing from paralegal to Associate within the Employment Group. Her training included seats in Financial Services Dispute and Investigations and Employment, alongside a client secondment to McKesson UK and an international secondment to the firm’s Dubai office within the Corporate team.