Anton Aerts
Bird & Bird
Bird & Bird
Client SatisfactionBird & Bird‘s international HR services practice group works closely with colleagues from the firm’s global offices to handle day-to-day support, strategic advice on large-scale transactional matters, and disputes. It has a notable sector focus in technology, including data privacy matters. Pieter De Koster and Anton Aerts co-head the team; De Koster is experienced in high-profile employment litigation and cross-border matters, while Aerts regularly handles transfer of undertakings, corporate restructurings, and redundancies.
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Key clients
- Cadence Design Systems
- C&A
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Straumann Group
- Cooper Consumer Health
- Vlerick Business School
- Neste
- Patria Oyj
- Elanco
- Salesforce
- Workday
- VF International
Work highlights
- Advised Elanco on the full process of setting up a European works council, governed by German law. The assistance included benchmarking contract details towards industry standards, advising on strategic issues, and securing management positions in contract negotiations.
- Assisted Straumann Group, a Swiss-based group in the dental care industry, with the set-up of a European works council, incl strategic issues on governance, composition, governing law etc.
- Assisted Zoom with both collective and individual labour law issues.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Pieter De Koster, Anton Aerts