Employment

Emmanuelle Barbara

Senior Partner

Emmanuel Bénard

Partner

Pierre-Alexis Dumont

Partner

Joël Grangé

Partner

David Jonin

David Jonin is a partner in the Employment Law practice group. He specialises in employment and social protection law. He advises French and international companies on major assignments and also represents their interests during any related litigation. David Jonin has recently advised international groups on issues of restructuring, reorganisation and working conditions. He provides legal advice and litigation services for French and foreign companies on employment law issues (company restructurings and reorganisations, staff representative bodies and trade unions, working conditions, union and employee representative elections) and social protection law (social contributions, workplace work-related accidents and illnesses, social security contributions inspections, provident schemes, pensions).  

Pascale Lagesse

Partner

Jean Néret

Partner

Emeric Sorel

Partner

Véronique Tuffal-Nerson

Véronique Tuffal-Nerson is the founder of TNDA's law office and a partner in the employment law department. A specialist in labor law, Véronique regularly works on restructuring projects, relations with the work councils and high-risk litigation. She advises managers and HR officers on their company's social strategy. She is also a mediator and is called upon for collective mediations. Véronique is also regularly involved in compliance cases.

Géric Clomes

Géric is an Employment and Incentives Partner in the Paris office with more than 15 years of experience. He focuses on strategic cross-border and multi-jurisdictional work for international clients such as banks, private equity funds and corporates. Géric has a strong experience on strategic transactional employment advice for international clients (including coordination work for multi-jurisdictional projects, managing information and consultation procedures, transfer of employees, etc.), crisis-management matters (e.g. moral/sexual harassment cases, investigatory work, negotiation of departures of senior executives, assistance during negotiation with trade unions) and strategic employment-related litigations (e.g. involving trade unions and works councils). Géric also developed the Incentives side of the Paris practice and plays a key role across the Linklaters network in assisting international clients on their global issues with respect to compensation and benefits.

Hélène Daher

Managing Partner

Guillaume Desmoulin

Partner

Marion Guertault

Partner

Benjamin Krief

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2012, Benjamin Krief is a partner in Gide's Employment Law Department in Paris. Benjamin specialises in labour law and practices in both individual and collective labour relations. He particularly assists transnational groups in the management of their strategic litigation, such as collective litigation initiated by staff representation bodies, industrial tribunal litigation concerning senior executives or sensitive issues such as harassment, discrimination or the status of whistleblowers. Benjamin is also very active in the defence of intermediation platforms with regard to litigation initiated by drivers/delivery personnel seeking recognition of employee status In addition to litigation, Benjamin also assists his clients in the implementation of their reorganisation projects (transfer, voluntary redundancy plan, etc.) and has built up a speciality in the context of information and consultation procedures with staff representation bodies. Benjamin is also a Doctor of Law from the University of Paris II - Panthéon-Assas. He wrote a thesis under the supervision of Professor Bernard Teyssié entitled "Essai sur l'émergence d'un droit européen de la représentation collective" which received the prize of the University of Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, of the UIMM and of the cabinet Voltaire. He regularly publishes articles in specialised journals and lectures in various Master 2 courses.

Thibault Meiers

National Partner

Marie-Hélène Bensadoun

Partner

Frédéric Broud

Partner Co-Managing Partner since 2020

Grégory CHASTAGNOL

Lawyer

Cyril Gaillard

Partner

Patrick Thiébart

Partner

Philippe Thomas

Partner

Laetitia Tombarello

Partner

Loïc Touranchet

Loïc helps groups as part of collective bargaining (Annual Mandatory Negotiation, working time, GPEC (Jobs and Skills Forecast Management) and the management of high-risk cases in pretrial phases and litigation.He has a wide-ranging experience in company restructurings, turnarounds and winding-up proceedings.

Lionel Vuidard

Lionel Vuidard joined the Paris office of Linklaters in March 2014 as a Partner and head of the French Employment practice. Lionel Vuidard is recognised as one of the best employment lawyers in the French Employment market. He is known as a proactive attorney providing clients with hands-on, pragmatic advice and strong representation in litigation matters. Lionel Vuidard was ranked as “excellent” in the last annual ranking published by Décideurs Juridiques, the French leading legal review, and as a “4-Star lawyer” in the last Option Finance ranking. In litigation matters, Lionel Vuidard represents companies before courts regarding sensitive employment disputes, such as high-profile individual cases, collective litigation, labour-related criminal litigation, and mass actions. Lionel Vuidard also has a strong experience in dispute resolution and the negotiation of settlement agreements.