Our employment practice covers a wide range of matters relating to local, regional and international employment issues. These can vary from multi-jurisdictional transactions to structuring individual employment arrangements. It also involves dealing with contentious employment matters such as discrimination and dismissal issues. In addition, the practice assists clients with their employee benefit arrangements, such as the establishment and operation of private pension schemes and innovative employee incentive arrangements, such as stock option and bonus plans.
Our advising services cover individual and collective employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, executive remuneration and related regulatory and disclosure obligations, service contracts and related documents, confidentiality and restrictive covenants, work councils, individual and group severance arrangements, and contracting out of services.
A competent team of lawyers have particular expertise in all the legal aspects of establishing and operating pension schemes, restructuring pension arrangements, merging and winding-up schemes, and pension scheme disputes, including court proceedings.
We also specialize in advising on employee share options plans and profit sharing schemes, long-term incentive plans for senior executives, management participation in management buy-outs and management buy-ins, and employee incentive schemes, including profit related pay and phantom option schemes.