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Bird & Bird

Employment

Europe Guide 2026 : Ireland


Bird & Bird

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Employment - Ireland

Band 4

Band 4


What the Team is Known For

Bird & Bird enters the rankings this year, offering support on a variety of employment topics including M&A transactions, restructurings, terminations and working time compliance. The team acts on behalf of domestic and international clients.

Work Highlights

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  • Bird & Bird advised the founders of Clubber TV on the employment law aspects of a seed capital investment from an international publishing company.

Strengths

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  • Bird & Bird is efficient, competent and very well-resourced.

    Employment respondentEurope
  • The advice is always clear and detailed, which helped a lot.

    Employment respondentEurope
  • Bird & Bird was always available to me and provided excellent, reasonable legal advice. I always trusted the firm to handle each and every problem with a reasonable, efficient solution.

    Employment respondentEurope

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 4Susan Battye
    Band 4Susan Battye

    Susan Battye

    Susan Battye has a broad practice covering collective redundancies, internal investigations, senior executive dismissals and employment compliance topics. She also advises on TUPE considerations and protected disclosure.

    • She is efficient, experienced, smart, practical and hard-working and fights hard for her clients.

      Employment respondentEurope
    • Susan explains everything very thoroughly and holds the client's hand throughout processes.

      Employment respondentEurope
    • Susan is pragmatic, efficient, responsive and gets the job done.

      Employment respondentEurope
    • Susan is very professional and on hand at all times to give good advice.

      Employment respondentEurope
  • Associates to watchNiamh Cassidy
    Associates to watchNiamh Cassidy

    Niamh Cassidy

    Niamh Cassidy is active on a variety of employment matters on both the contentious and non-contentious sides. She assists with matters ranging from employee transfers, reorganisations and redundancy to discrimination claims and contested dismissals.

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