Stephen Ravenscroft

Stephen is a partner in the Employment team. He has a wealth of experience advising clients on their most business-critical employment law and HR issues, including those arising during recruitment, departure, restructuring, change management, whistleblowing, grievance and disciplinary investigations and procedures, disputes and litigation.

He has particular expertise navigating clients through complex and sensitive board, founder and senior management level disputes and departures, as well as Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation proceedings when an alternative resolution cannot be reached.

He has advised on the employment law aspects of many complex and high-value UK and cross-border corporate transactions, including M&A and private equity deals, as well as large outsourcing projects involving the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE).

Stephen works with international and domestic companies, firms and limited liability partnerships and LLP members, senior executives and investment professionals across a range of sectors, including banking and finance, professional services, natural resources, real estate, media and technology.

He regularly supports private equity and venture capital firms with employment law advice relating to their portfolio companies and is engaged by other law firms and professional services firms to provide employment law advice to their clients where that advice cannot be provided in-house.

• Advising an international asset management firm on a significant internal reorganisation of its senior management structure following a change in principal stakeholders.
• Advising an international investment firm on a confidential internal investigation with critical reputational and regulatory implications.
• Advising a global natural resources company on an internal restructuring of its UK subsidiaries.
• Advising a trustee company of one of the UK’s largest pension schemes on a sensitive and complex outsourcing.
• Advising a private equity owned portfolio company on the removal of a founder shareholder and executive as a condition of new investment to avoid insolvency.
• Advising a global background screening company on various cross-border employment matters across Europe and Asia.
• Advising a senior investment professional on all aspects of their move to one of the world’s largest private equity firms, including restrictive covenant risks and replacement of lost equity, carried interest and co-investment benefits

• Commentary for HR Magazine: Tribunal backs hotel receptionist’s race discrimination claim (November 2024)
• Commentary for People Management and HR Magazine on topics of confidentiality and digital evidence in employment disputes (October 2024)

Stephen has been independently nominated as one of the three most outstanding lawyers by clients he has worked with in the last three years as part of Thomson Reuters global research with senior in-house counsel and has been included in the 2025 Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers database.

Stephen is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Stephen is a former professional rugby player, having played for both Saracens and England.