Tax and Employment Changes: The Legal & Financial Implications for Employers - NOVA x Osborne Clarke x Gravita 13.05
Tuesday 13. May at 16:00 - 19:00
Osborne Clarke, Bristol
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We’re excited to invite you to an exclusive event where we’ll explore the key tax, employment law and pension changes happening in 2025—covering everything from wage increases and unfair dismissal reforms to pension adjustments and National Insurance deadlines.
Join us alongside our legal and accounting partners Osborne Clarke and Gravita, who will provide expert insights into what these changes mean for your business, workforce, and tax planning.
Key Topics We’ll Cover:
✅ Employment Law Updates – National Living Wage increase, unfair dismissal protections, gender pay gap reporting, and more.
✅ Pension & NI Contributions – State pension adjustments, voluntary NI contribution deadlines, and industry-specific pension reforms. Mitigation planning ideas such as salary sacrifice and benefits in kind
✅ Share schemes as a tax efficient way to retain and motivate your team in light of NI increases
✅ Legal & Financial Implications – Practical guidance from industry experts on how to prepare and stay compliant.
✅ Potential effects from changes to Diversity & inclusion policies in the US and the upcoming policy reviews by the Labour Government.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the recent and upcoming regulatory shifts, ask questions, and network with peers navigating the same changes. RSVP now to secure your spot! We look forward to seeing you there.
The session will be chaired by Gravita's Group CEO, Caroline Plumb OBE and our Speakers will be:
Anna Elliott , who is the head of the International Retail and Consumer Goods Sector. She is a partner in Osborne Clarke's employment practice and leads the Bristol employment team.
Anna joined Osborne Clarke from a leading international firm where she worked for most of her career, qualifying into the employment team in London in 2002 and subsequently starting the employment team in Sydney where she is also qualified and became a partner.
With over 18 years' experience advising on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, Anna has particular expertise in advising businesses on post-termination restraints, discrimination and harassment issues, restructures and redundancies, employment disputes and employment aspects of corporate transactions. In addition, Anna leads international client relationships for key clients and numerous cross-border employment projects.
Known for her commercial solutions-driven approach, Anna's clients range from large global corporates to smaller companies. She has significant experience advising clients in the fashion and luxury, retail, life sciences and healthcare, workforce solutions, media and technology sectors. She also leads the UK firm's Retail and Consumer team, which is ranked #1 in Legal 500 and acts for well-known retail and consumer brands. Anna also advises leading fashion and luxury brands on a broad range of strategic and complex employment matters. She is also the key employment contact for the firm's life sciences and healthcare sector where her clients range from pharma, medical devices and digital healthcare companies.
Lara Fatemi, who is an Associate Director in Osborne Clarke's employment team and is based in London. She is particularly experienced in providing transactional, advisory and litigation employment support to private equity houses and their portfolios.
Lara advises on a wide variety of employment matters including employment disputes, post termination restraints, harassment and discrimination investigations, dismissals and restructurings.
She is particularly experienced in 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 private equity houses and portfolios, VC companies and listed businesses. Lara also regularly advises management teams on their employment terms as part of private equity investments.
Lara has assisted in a variety of cross jurisdictional matters and has spent time working with the employment team in Osborne Clarke’s Milan office. Whilst she supports clients across a range of sectors, she has particular expertise in advising businesses in the TMC and Financial Services sectors.
Clare Boden
who is Corporate Tax Partner at Gravita and has worked as a tax advisor since 2007 starting in London, training in a Top 10 firm before joining a Big 4 firm. Her experience spans a broad range of taxes in the UK and multiple international jurisdictions both in practice and in-house.
Clare moved to the South West in 2015 to be closer to family and, following her role at Dyson, has continued to work with clients in many sectors with particular knowledge in the engineering, manufacturing and real estate & construction sectors.
The work that Clare carries out ranges from management and review of tax compliance, reporting and governance, including complex technical analysis to projects such as tax due diligence and tax structuring advice. This experience has provided Clare with insightful knowledge of how to deal with the tax issues resulting from rapid growth and expansion and multi-jurisdictional tax regimes and her practical experience also provides entrepreneurs and owner managed businesses with proactive, tax effective advice in the South West.
Helen Gale
who is the Head of Private client tax at Gravita and joined in June 2019. Helen’s experience extends over 35 years including a start with HMRC before moving on to work for Top 4 firms in London and time in industry with British Airways.
Over that time, she has developed a specialism for providing practical advice to a wide range of clients across corporation tax, employment tax, personal tax, trust tax, capital gains tax, tax residency issues and inheritance tax. Also, in recent years this has developed into working with solicitors to provide Single Joint Expert witness reports.
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