Our team of specialist lawyers provide advice about all employment and immigration matters.
We support our international clients with the full range of employment and immigration issues, and we have extensive experience of advising clients on matters that have cross-jurisdiction elements. That includes international businesses that need assistance with their existing UK workforce or when they wish to establish such a workforce. It also includes project managing multi-jurisdictional activities such as redundancies (RIFs) where we can work with lawyers whom we trust worldwide in providing a seamless service. We are often instructed by overseas lawyers to work alongside them in providing a service to their valuable clients as they know that we are experts who work collaboratively.
Our employment and immigration advice cover areas such as:
- Obtaining the necessary visas for allowing the UK workforce and family members to be recruited and/or transferred to the UK;
- The creation of employment documentation such as contracts and handbooks;
- Advising on the broad range of statutory employment rights of employees;
- Managing internal disputes;
- Managing sensitive processes such as redundancies and staff transfers;
- Conducting due diligence and negotiations as part of international transactions;
- Advising on the termination of employment;
- Representing clients in court and employment tribunal proceedings; and
- Negotiating settlements.
In addition to this ‘core’ employment advice, we also offer more. We can provide employment-related specialist services within the firm, avoiding the need to have several UK advisors on employment issues. Those services include advising on:
- Employment Tax
- Data Privacy
- Pensions
- Health and Safety
- Employee Benefits
as well as sector-specific services such as financial and other professional regulatory issues.
International experience
Our specialist lawyers have proven experience in providing a comprehensive service and reaching the best outcome for their clients. Examples of our recent international experience of our team members includes:
- Supporting a client with a European wide redundancy (RIF) process, leading the project from the UK and instructing locally based advisers on behalf of the client to ensure the timing of the process worked despite the different requirements of each jurisdiction
- Advising a US based client on the acquisition of a business as a going concern involving multiple jurisdictions, including advising on restrictions in each jurisdiction on changing terms of conditions and ensuring that the client was able to implement a global incentive plan
- Supporting a UK based client with a substantial offshoring project to India, assisting with both the UK employment law (TUPE) implications, also collaborating with advisers in India to ensure the client’s compliance with all local rules and requirements in connection with its offshoring project; and
- Advising a Canadian based corporate client on establishing a new business operation in the UK, including supporting with UK immigration requirements to support key managers to work in the UK to establish the business.
