We have one of the biggest Employment, Labor and Pensions legal teams in the world, with hundreds of dedicated lawyers in offices across numerous countries. We are set up to guide you through the wide variety of cultural and legal requirements you will be faced with from one country to the next - and any major global transactions, restructuring or reorganizations that span multiple jurisdictions.
If you’re operating internationally, you will often be faced with a huge variety of employment contracts, different language requirements, and widely varying levels of employment protection for employees. Whether you’re moving staff between countries and employing expats, planning international restructuring or already managing a global workforce, you need dedicated legal advice.
We’ll provide you with a complete package of legal advice, with the quality you’d expect from one of the most experienced Employment, Labor and Pensions legal teams. If you are handling a workload across multiple jurisdictions, that could be managing day-to-day queries to help you focus on strategic issues, or providing you with a team to manage a complex project. You’ll have the option to have one point of contact, and let us do the project management for you.
We can give you nuanced advice, localized to each individual jurisdiction, allowing you to stay focused on the big picture. Our lawyers speak fluent English as well as their local language, and some are qualified in more than one jurisdiction.
When you need dedicated and specific cross-border legal advice, whether it be on tax, employment contracts, immigration, pensions or employee benefits, we will pull in the relevant support from our experienced, award-winning team of attorneys.
Our lawyers are experienced in the cross-border aspects of employment and pensions law. Our recent experience includes advising:
- an agri-chemical business on an 18 month long project involving the sale of the business across 37 jurisdictions with a value of $1 billion
- several multi-jurisdictional projects for a market leading multinational tech company which has included the collation of the laws in 15 to 48 countries on issues ranging from treatment of agency workers, position on compelling and collecting Covid-19 vaccination data and the international move to hybrid working
- on the provision of employment law advice to a multinational medtech company across multiple jurisdictions
- the trustees of a large DB scheme on the bulk transfer of its assets and liabilities to a Belgian IORP
- a major Irish bank on the pension benefits applicable to employees with pensionable service in both the UK and Ireland
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