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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.
Ranked Lawyers at
GQ|Littler
London (Firms)
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Members
Provided by GQ|Littler
Alison Sneddon
Ben Rouse
Ben Smith
Chris Coombes
Daniel Pollard
Darren Isaacs
Deborah Margolis
Emily Partridge
Georgia Fisher
James Champness
Jenny Allan
Jessica Lim
Jon Gilligan
Josephine Rendall-Neal
Kate Potts
Kate Richards
Laura Lobb
Lisa Coleman
Natasha Adom
Nicola James
Head of Department
Oliver Moreton
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Head of Department
Sanika Karandikar
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Head of Department
Clients
Provided by GQ|Littler
Buzzacott LLP
Clearbank
Commerzbank AG
Cytel
DC Advisory
E A Gibson Shipbrokers Limited
Epiq Systems
Mimecast
Morgan Sindall Group plc
Omnipresent
Overbury
Time Inc
Uber
Industries
Provided by GQ|Littler
Financial services
Healthcare and pharmaceutical
IT/Technology
Luxury goods
Professional services
Transport and shipping
US Law Firms