Employment: Employer

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.