Gareth Walls

Practice Areas

Gareth Walls is a Partner and Head of the A&L Goodbody's Employment group in Belfast. Gareth represents a number of local, national and international brands in business support, strategic workforce planning and high profile tribunal matters. He also has significant experience advising stakeholders on complex redundancy, re-structuring and TUPE issues. Gareth is an accomplished commercial litigator with particular emphasis on procurement challenges and injunctive relief in the Employment context, as well as being a sought after speaker on Employment issues in Northern Ireland.

Areas of expertise include:

•Employment

•Litigation & Dispute Resolution

•Betting, Gaming & Liquor Licensing

•Corporate Immigration Services

Career

Experience Advising:

- Netflix on first registration with the Equality Commission and employment/trade union engagement in Northern Ireland.

- Jose Cuervo on its acquisition of the Old Bushmills Distillery and all related employment law matters.

- Allstate NI on matters of corporate governance and tribunal representation.

- Marks and Spencer on a range of Tribunal matters to include grievance and disciplinary process handling.

- CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) Global on its first entry to Northern Ireland on all employment, immigration and regulatory compliance matters.

- Hastings Hotel Group on all employment law matters in Northern Ireland and modern slavery compliance.

- Citi Group on contentious and non-contentious employment law matters including disciplinary and grievance processes.

Professional Memberships

Gareth is a member of the Employment Lawyers Group and is the Northern Ireland representative for the Employment Law Alliance. He is a Council Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association. In addition, Gareth is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a Law Society Panel Mediator.

Education