EXPERIENCE

Financial

44 country review of severance terms and ability to reduce them.

16 person team move/ restrictive covenants – defending injunction proceedings and negotiating final undertakings.

Eight person team move, successfully applying for injunctive restraints pending expedited hearing, and negotiating final undertakings.

Successful mediation of a “difficult” sex and age discrimination claim.

Advising on redundancy/RIF program.

Advising on a 24 country acquisition and redundancy programme.

Multiple whistleblowing claims relating to dangers to public health.

Advising on the application of TUPE on the wind down and re-construction of operating consortium.

Defending disability and unfair dismissal claim.

Developing strategy for and negotiating European Works Council agreement.

Executive severance for credit card fraud.

Successfully defending a bonus claim for over 500 employees.

Defending an equal pay claim.

Defending a 12 person union blacklisting claim which occurred ten years previously.

Defending a unlawful termination claim by a managing director.

Representing two companies on union recognition claims.

Representing senior executives in complex and highly sensitive severance negotiations.