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About

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Key facts

  • European employment team counts over 450 lawyers/partners
  • Round 120 employment partners in Europe alone
  • Sector focused expertise
  • Multi-jurisdiction capabilities, including CEE
  • Vast experience and local expertise

What we can do for you?

  • Recruitment and terminations
  • Reorganisations and redundancies
  • Transfer of undertaking
  • Trade unions
  • Internal investigations
  • Employment advice in corporate transactions
  • GDPR
  • New forms of employment
  • Employee mobility
  • Immigration
  • Employment litigation
  • HR documentation​

What we offer?

  • Business style legal advice
  • Support of our tax, corporate and regulatory lawyers
  • Free knowledge sharing (Law-Now, webinars, newsletters, guides)
  • Feedback opportunities
  • Tailor-made training programs and seminars

Chambers Review

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Employment - Europe-wide

1
Band 1

What the Team is Known For

CMS has an expansive network across Europe, with strong teams in Austria, Germany, France, the UK and Iberia. The law firm has a broad offering, including non-contentious transactional, compliance, restructuring and redundancy matters. It is also active in disputes matters relating to employment tribunals. Clients include large corporates from diverse sectors, such as media, consumer goods, technology and energy, as well as service industry clients.

Notable practitioners

Global co-heads of the firm's employment and pensions group Christopher Jordan and Caroline Froger-Michon are based in Cologne and Paris respectively.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

"CMS has the ability to mobilise multidisciplinary teams."

Employment respondent
Europe

"I have every confidence every time I reach out to CMS that their support and advice will be robust and clear."

Employment respondent
Europe

"The team deals with all matters in a timely manner."

Employment respondent
Europe

"Their speed and quality are really on a high level."

Employment respondent
Europe

"The CMS team have always been able to respond to our needs regardless of the variety of our queries."

Employment respondent
Europe

Members

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Afonso Susana

Alison Woods

Caroline Froger-Michon

Head of Department

Carsten Domke

Christopher Jordan

Head of Department

Fabrizio Spagnolo

Gabriella Ormai

Gaël Chuffart

Katja van Kranenburg - Hanspians

Lakshanthi Fernando

Melanie Lane

Raphaël Bordier

Sophie Marquet

Vincent Delage

Industries

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Financial Services, Energy, Consumer Products, Lifesciences, TMT, Real Estate & Construction, Hotels & Leisure and Projects