Orrick handles major international employment matters including large-scale restructurings and downsizings. The team is active for clients in a range of sectors and advises major blue-chip companies on high-level and sensitive cases. Emmanuel Bénard, a noted specialist in collective litigation and criminal employment law, leads the team. He is supported by Nadège Owen, who is a trusted adviser to corporate clients on a range of employment issues. Hélène Boukez and Soumaya Ouzzani are other key practitioners of note.
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Testimonials
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‘In-depth expertise, ability to deliver quickly, within the requested deadlines, prudent advice.’
‘Emmanuel Benard: high quality of advice, high quality of written legal analysis.'
'Soumaya Ouzzani: ability to follow cases over long periods of time, creative in legal argumentation.'
‘Very high technicality on questions of social law, both individual and collective, acute political sense.’
‘Emmanuel Bénard: commitment, high added value advice combined with marked pragmatism, global vision.’
‘Special mention for Soumaya Ouzzani, for her unfailing support, ability to explain the complexities of French social law to our internal contacts (Europe / Global). Real availability to support us on a daily basis in our transformation projects.’
‘Professional team, well organized, responsive, rigorous and open to current technologies.’
‘I worked a lot with Soumaya Ouzzani. she is very professional, responsive, proactive and extremely competent. She gives very good advice, and always seeks the right solution to the problem exposed with the objective of securing the file. She listens to her clients and their concerns, provides answers quickly and is very available.’
Key clients
- Almaviva
- Antin Infrastructure
- Aswo
- AXA France
- AXA GO
- AXA IM
- Change.org
- Clubmed
- Crédit Agricole SA
- Crédit Agricole Assurances
- Dior
- Groupe Air France (Air France / Hop !)
- Helios
- Heycar
- Idia
- La Banque Postale
- Omnipresent
- PKF
- Snap
- Splunk
- Venafi
Work highlights
- Advising Air France on its strategic European projects in light of existing collective arrangements.
- Assisting La Banque Postale in various corporate transactions by providing analysis and support for the employment law aspects.
- Assisting Groupe AXA with its most sensitive issues or projects (notably for crisis management, relations with works council and trade unions).
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Practice head
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Emmanuel Benard, Nadège Owen