Employment
France
20 years ranked
Provided by Bird & Bird
Philippe Thomas focuses his practice on employment matters. He has extensive experience in the transfer of personnel and other employment law aspects of national and international mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Thomas regularly advises on restructuring issues with or without reductions in headcount. He assists clients on works council consultations, harmonization of employee status and on senior employee terminations. Mr. Thomas also litigates regularly in respect of post-termination issues. Mr. Thomas and his team have particular experience in handling sensitive and crisis cases (including plant closures, executive departures, health and safety issues at work, and strikes).
Provided by Chambers
Philippe Thomas operates a strong employment practice and ably handles a wide range of matters, including redundancy plans, harassment cases, litigation and working time policy cases. He joined Bird & Bird in April 2026.
Philippe Thomas a une importante pratique de droit social et traite avec compétence de nombreux types de dossiers, notamment les plans sociaux, les affaires de harcèlement, les contentieux et les dossier de temps de travail. Il a rejoint Bird & Bird en Avril 2026.
Provided by Chambers
He is consistently responsive, providing thoughtful, commercial advice and is a genuine partner to the business.
He takes into account the general business needs and not only limits his role to the explanation and legal options. He goes above and beyond and gives relevant advice.
Philippe understands our business very well. He is a very pragmatic lawyer.
Philippe is an excellent lawyer with a keen business sense and knowledge of the market and its practices.
He is always very responsive, thorough in his advice, gives a rounded answer and a high level summary.
Philippe comprend très bien notre secteur d'activité. C'est un avocat très pragmatique.
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