About
Provided by GQ|Littler
Principal areas of work
GQ|Littler is an expert in advising on all employment law issues from complex change projects, M&A support, litigation (High Court and Employment Tribunal) and senior dismissals, to everyday employee relations issues.
The firm has expertise in relation to:
- Complex multi-jurisdictional HR projects
- High Court litigation related to any people issues in the workplace including disputes with contractors, restrictive covenants, confidential information, poaching and team moves
- High-value Employment Tribunal litigation including discrimination and whistle-blowing
- Employment law aspects of M&A transactions, outsourcing, insourcing and off-shoring
- Business restructuring and large-scale redundancy programmes
- Executive/senior employee hiring and firing
- Data protection & workplace technology
- Trade union, industrial relations, collective bargaining and Works Council issues
- Employee incentives and share schemes
- Business Immigration
- Employment law training
Work highlights
- Advised on a $5.8 billion dollar transaction in relation to the UK employment aspects of our client's acquisition.
- Advised our client on the transfer of 50+ employees to a new shared services entity.
- We acted for a venture capital backed tech business on its recent global rationalisation project, coordinating the exercise across 15+ countries.
- Advised a technology client on the UK and Irish HR aspects of its $3.5 billion dollar merger.
