Dean Fuller

Dean is a partner who brings more than 30 years’ experience as a solicitor to advise on partnership, employment and shareholder disputes. He counsels professional firms and individual partners, employers and employees, companies and shareholders alike on their rights and obligations, with a focus on high-value matters involving strategic, regulatory, financial or reputational risk.

Dean has a wealth of partnership and employment law knowledge having acted for respondent employers, LLP members and employees on injunctions, restrictive covenants, team moves, partnership disputes, wrongful dismissal, breach of contract, discrimination and whistleblowing complaints. He also has extensive experience advising on the employment aspects of a wide variety of private equity, M&A and outsourcing transactions, as well as workforce restructurings.

Dean has a keen interest in corporate governance and compliance issues and has advised companies, limited partnerships, senior executives and LLP members on their responsibilities under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, the UK Corporate Governance Code, the FCA/PRA Remuneration Codes, the Takeover Code and recommended best practice.

Dean advises on bonus and carried interest schemes, service agreements, disciplinary and grievance matters and the termination of employment of senior executives, including the tax rules for severance payments. He has been responsible for negotiating exit packages for Senior Managers employed by UK, US and European banks and other financial institutions.

Dean endeavours to assist clients to fulfil their objectives in often difficult and stressful circumstances employing the patience, discretion and pragmatism for which he is known. He has presented client seminars and delivered keynote speeches on topics such as TUPE and the Bribery Act 2010.

Dean is ranked by Chambers for his contentious partnership work and is recommended by The Legal 500 for partnership law. He is described as “a veteran of the partnership space”.

Appointments, Associations and Memberships

Dean moved to Fox & Partners in October 2011. He has over 30 years’ experience as a solicitor to advise on partnership, employment and shareholder disputes.

Dean’s professional experience has included being a non-Council member of the Law Society Remuneration Committee and sitting on a peer review panel for Oxford University Press.

Dean is a member of the Industrial Law Society, the Association of Partnership Practitioners and the Employment Lawyers Association.

Client Testimonials

“Dean, once again, I want to thank you for all of your support and truly professional service. You are a credit to the profession.”

“Dean you’ve been a star throughout this process. I understand now how difficult it must be to manage your clients’ expectations with respect to probability of success, costs, process, timing etc. You must have had so many balls in the air at times!”

“Dean Fuller is an exceptionally experienced solicitor who guides his clients through difficult matters to achieve exceptional outcomes. He is one of the few partnership solicitors able to give advice on the corporate governance aspects of financial services firms, which is invaluable to his clients.”

“My main contact at the firm throughout the engagement was Dean Fuller. The service I received from Dean was excellent – he was very responsive and very thorough. I had a high degree of confidence in him throughout the process.” (Legal 500 2023 – Partnership)

“He is great and really knowledgeable.” “Dean is an excellent technical lawyer who is very hands-on and client-friendly.” “He has a very pragmatic approach.” (Chambers 2022 – Partnership)