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Employment | Partnership | Business Immigration
We have substantial experience in handling a wide variety of sensitive employment law issues for national and multi-national corporations, directors and other senior employees. Our core areas of employment law expertise include:
- Board room disputes
- Executive bonus and departure issues
- High value and complex discrimination claims
- Senior executive appointments and service agreements
- Expatriate and international secondment arrangements and disputes
- Large scale redundancy programmes
- Team moves and restrictive covenant advice
- Business reorganisations and asset transfers (TUPE)
- General employment law counselling for corporate clients
Work with an international dimension is an important part of our practice. A number of our lawyers either speak a second language or are bilingual. The key additional languages spoken are German and Japanese.
The common thread through all of our employment law work is the high-value, complex nature of the matters on which we are instructed.
Partnership law is a core specialisation and forms a significant part of our practice. We advise professional partnerships, equity partners and LLP members in a wide variety of sensitive partnership law issues. Our core areas of partnership law expertise include:
- Equity partner exits and appointments
- Partner restrictive covenants
- High value partner discrimination claims
- Partner team moves
We provide all our clients with strategic, tactical and pragmatic advice, together with a highly personalised level of support.
We advise national and multi-national corporations on the full range of business immigration law matters.
The areas on which we focus include:
- Intra Company Transfer applications (i.e. applications to transfer a skilled worker from an overseas branch of a company to a UK branch)
- Tier 2 “General” applications, including carrying out a Resident Labour Market Test
- Registering as a sponsor with the UK Border Agency
- Ongoing compliance with the Immigration Rules
We also advise senior individuals on the following Tier 1 applications:
- Highly skilled worker
- Investor
- Entrepreneur
When there are overlapping employment and business immigration issues, our expertise in both areas helps to ensure a successful outcome for our clients.
Our advice and approach is tailored to our clients’ specific needs and reflect the time sensitive nature of business immigration matters.