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Chambers Review

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Employment - Global: Multi-Jurisdictional
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Band 2
What the team is known for

Herbert Smith Freehills has a well-regarded practice with strength across a range of employment and employee benefits issues. It is particularly noted for leading teams in Australia, Singapore and the UK. The law firm offers:

       • Experience advising on litigation and regulatory investigations, including discrimination claims and whistle-blowing procedures.

       • Expertise assisting with boardroom and executive matters, as well as employment law advice during corporate transactions, such as sales, restructurings and acquisitions.

       • Considerable skill drafting employee and executive share and incentive plans and transfer agreements.

       • Familiarity acting for clients from the financial services, energy, transport, retail and TMT sectors.

Strengths

"I find the whole workplace relations team are commercially minded. They provide their advice from the client's perspective, which is super helpful when managing a corporate's various stakeholders."

"Herbert Smith Freehills are able to get under the skin of our business. They are at the cutting edge, handling novel issues as well as being a very well-oiled machine, extremely thorough and pleasant to deal with. They have an excellent service ethos."

Notable practitioners

London-based Alison Brown heads the law firm's global employment, pensions and incentives practice.