Employment

Linklaters

Client Satisfaction

Linklaters handles standalone employment matters as well as the labour aspects of M&A transactions for major international companies. The team is notable for its expertise in reorganisation matters, downsizing, collective lay-offs, voluntary departure plans, collective agreements, negotiations, and employee representatives’ consultation. Industry veteran Lionel Vuidard leads the practice alongside Géric Clomes.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘A truly international firm ready to understand the needs of a multinational company.’
‘The team is well balanced with complementary expertise and approaches.'
‘The team is very professional and competent. The team is also pragmatic, efficient and very quickly understands the situation and the requests of their clients.’
‘Lionel Vuidard is one of the best specialists in social law in France. In addition to his deep legal experience, he is very pragmatic, his opinions are clear and directly applicable. He responds clearly to simple or complicated problems submitted to him by his clients. He also immediately understands the context and the questions asked by them. In addition, he manages the social law department of Linklaters Paris with great efficiency. ’
‘Lionel Vuidard has a strong team and has effectively guided us through, and provided tactical advice on, French employment law.’
‘Lionel Vuidard is experienced and practical in his approach.’

Key clients

CGI France
Semtech
CACEIS
LG Electronics
Nestlé
EPI
Moelis & Company
Carrier Global Corporation
Bonhams France SAS
Groupe BEL / Unibel
Vivescia
Bloomberg
Project44
State Street Bank
Bank of America
RTL Group
MAESA
SWIFT
XTX Markets
Green Investment Group Limited
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Deutsche Bank
UniCredit

Work highlights

Advising CGI on strategic litigation and advisory matters.
Advising Sierra Wireless regarding the implementation of a reorganisation and collective redundancy plan involving 99 job positions in France.
Advised CACEIS, the asset servicing banking group, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole S.A. and Banco Santander, on the employment aspect of the acquisition of RBC.