Paul Cotton

Paul is the head of the Eversheds Leeds office and a partner in our human resources practice. He specialises in the employment aspects of acquisitions and mergers, particularly TUPE, redundancies and re-organisations. Paul also has a special interest in advising on executive terminations, restrictive covenants and industrial relations issues.

Paul’s recent experience includes: advising large multi-nationals on balloted industrial action; advising on site closures, mass redundancies and ways of avoiding redundancies by implementation of 4 day working week; negotiation of senior executive termination packages and advising FTSE listed company on a significant board room dispute.

Paul regularly provides training to clients, both in-house and on external courses and contributes to a variety of publications. Paul is featured in Chambers Legal Directory as “really getting to grips with the mentality of a client” and is described as “calming, understanding and bright”. He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Tel: 0113 200 4745
Email: paulcotton@eversheds.com