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International legal specialists with multilateral engagement experience providing legal guidance and representing clients in various employment matters.

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Employment counselling and complex employment litigation experts

Our employment and litigation team spans our international office network and focuses on employment counselling and complex employment litigation for clients in our core sectors, with specific expertise in financial services, insurance, energy, commodities, shipping, aviation and construction.

We combine our long-standing, top rated reputation for litigation, with our extensive first-hand, multi-national corporate management experience to supply both litigation and support services together with invaluable counsel to boards, general counsel, chairmen and chief executives, resulting in a service of the highest standard.

Extensive contentious and non-contentious employment advice

We are highly regarded experts in areas of employment moves, both individually and for team, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, breach of duty, conspiracy actions, employee data breaches, misuse of confidential information and intellectual property.

On the non-contentious side, we also advise on internal investigations involving regulatory breaches, whistleblowing, fraud, and theft or misuse of company property. Additionally, our expertise extends to the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and reorganisations, collective redundancies, outsourcing and industry consolidations more broadly.

Understanding the complexities of handling employment litigation and our team is able to access alternative litigation funding sources in appropriate cases.

Our experience in Employment

Our extensive experience providing comprehensive employment advice tailored to complex international environments spans across litigation, reputation management, advisory services, transactions, arbitration/mediation, and employment tribunals.

Advising in the United Kingdom and the United States and effecting a US$100 million recovery in respect of the permanent impact on a company’s share price as the result of a large team move.

Advising companies and individuals on regulatory investigations in multiple jurisdictions in respect of market manipulation issues, including FX and LIBOR.

Advising a financial services company in relation to defending a substantial team move and successfully securing one of the widest injunctions ever granted.

Representing insurance brokers on injunction proceedings preventing misuse of confidential information and poaching of clients.

Successfully representing a large broking house in litigation enforcing a seven figure liquidated damages clause on the no show of a rainmaking broker recruited from a competitor – the leading case on the enforcement of liquidated damages clauses in employment contracts.

Advising a wealth management company on a successful injunction application preventing a former financial adviser from poaching clients for a competitor.

Representing the former high profile chief executive officer of a luxury car manufacturer on a high value contract dispute.

Successfully representing three brokers in a multi-million pound conspiracy, misuse of confidential information and restrictive covenant dispute.

Advising on the impact of social media and reputation protection for both companies and individuals, including securing a written published apology from a leading financial newspaper.

Assisting a financial services company in an internal investigation into regulatory breaches and the resulting dismissal of a number of directors and senior executives.

Acting as regular trouble-shooter to a well known high profile financial services figurehead.

Advising a commodities trading house on breach of contract and bonus disputes.

Advising on the purchase and subsequent integration of a broker in the energy sector.

Co-ordinating advice in respect of opening offices in jurisdictions including Nigeria, South Africa and Switzerland.

Mediating a significant race discrimination case to resolution including and agreeing as part of the settlement to develop and implement new policies to prevent the potential for reoccurrence as a condition of settlement.

Using arbitration to resolve a high value contract dispute in order to avoid reputational damage to both the claimant and a celebrity family member.

In compliance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Transparency Rules, information about our UK charges and services in relation to unfair and wrongful dismissal claims in the Employment Tribunal can be found  here.