Europe, Middle East & Africa Employment Law

Recent examples of our multi-disciplinary work spanning the EMEA region and beyond include:

• Completed the world’s largest ever and most successful workforce restructure—covering 152 countries—including the most countries in the EMEA region. We advised our client regarding the implementation of successive collective redundancies, plant closures, and outsourcing and spin-off transactions.
• Designed the strategy, drafted the documents and assisted with the implementation of the global employment structure and country-specific arrangements covering operations in more than 75 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America for a pharmaceutical research business.
• Advised about the local language and documentation requirements for HR-related documents for employees in 47 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America for one of the world’s largest consumer brands.
• Advised about the health and safety legal obligations across Europe, including providing face-to-face pan-European training for European plant managers, for one of the world’s largest manufacturers.
• Advised about the collective labor rules and processes across one of the world’s largest logistics company’s international operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
• Analysed the requirements, advised about the options, developed the implementation strategy, drafted the documents and assisted with the implementation of the global employment structure and country-specific arrangements covering a medical device company’s operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
• Assisted with all of the international employment aspects of a $5.7 billion acquisition of a biotech/pharmaceutical company with operations in over 30 countries. We conducted due diligence and advised the client regarding employment integration matters, including works council and employee representative consultations. We prepared and managed the roll-out process for non-competition agreements for high-level executives in 16 countries.
• Assisted with a $3.3 billion post-acquisition employee integration of employees into the technology company acquirer’s existing entities across Asia, including developing strategies for integration, redundancies and harmonization of conditions of employment.
• Assisted with the international employment aspects of the sale of a large aerospace unit, including the mandatory works council and employee representative consultations that preceded the sale and the transition of employees to the buyer. We also managed the employee transition process, including the preparation of employment and termination agreements, consultation documents and employee transfer notifications.