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Chinwe Odimba-Chapman

Chinwe Odimba-Chapman

Office Managing Partner for London / Co-Regional Managing Partner for One Europe

Office Managing Partner for London / Co-Regional Managing Partner for One Europe
Chinwe Odimba-Chapman

Chinwe Odimba-Chapman is Co-Regional Managing Partner for One Europe, and Office Managing Partner for London. She is an Employment Partner and specialises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law advising on a wide range of employment, labour and HR issues in the UK and on a cross border basis including: Tribunal and High Court litigation; executive recruitment, remuneration, grievance disciplinary and dismissal; restructuring/insolvency redundancies and collective matters; public and private M&A, outsourcings and employee transfers.

  • Advising on employment aspects of outsourcings, M&A transactions and initial public offerings
  • Advising on executive level hires and terminations 
  • Advising on individual and collective redundancy 
  • Advising on drafting of employee contracts, consultancy agreements, secondment agreements, handbooks, policies and procedures
  • Advising on various employment disputes including claims for unfair dismissal, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract 
  • Advising on recruitment, including advising on the enforceability of restrictive covenants and defending threatened legal claims for injunctive proceedings and breach of contract
  • Advising on threatened injunctive proceedings
  • Advising a range of banks, funds and insurers on the implementation of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime/Senior Insurance Managers regime
  • Advising on remuneration issues under CRD IV, UCITS V, AIFMD and Solvency II

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Career and qualifications

  • The London School of Economics and Political Science (LLB) 2000
  • Joined Clifford Chance 2002
  • Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2004
  • Partner since 2018
  • Global Head of Talent since 2021

Awards and citations

  • Named amongst Cranfield University's 50 women to watch
  • Named as one of EMpower's 100 Ethnic Minority Executives for 2019