Senior Associate

The role

This role is for an experienced Employment Lawyer with 5 to 8 years of PQE, to join a top-ranked, internationally minded team. The lawyer will handle a broad range of largely non-contentious employment work, advising UK and multinational clients on various HR and legal issues.

What you'll do

• Advise on and draft in relation to TUPE transfers
• Advise on collective employment matters, including restructurings and redundancy programmes
• Manage and advise on change programmes, such as contract variation exercises
• Handle both day to day and complex employee relations and employee representation issues
• Provide transactional employment support, including drafting and negotiating employment warranties and indemnities, supporting due diligence processes, and advising on M&A, outsourcing and wider commercial arrangements
• Advise on senior and executive level recruitment and terminations
• Provide technical legal expertise and proactively improve advising skills
• Analyse legal information to solve problems and formulate arguments or strategy relevant to clients’ needs
• Proactively manage work and provide regular and appropriate updates to stakeholders
• Proactively develop positive working relationships with colleagues, working collaboratively and treating all colleagues with respect and professionalism
• Have an awareness of the firm’s goals and clients
• Have an appropriate level of involvement in building and maintaining relationships with key clients and prospects

What we're looking for