Linklaters‘ employment practice advisory offering spans day-to-day HR issues, whistleblowing, discrimination and remote working practices. The practice is praised for its ’great knowledge of the financial services sector‘ and regularly advises multinational and domestic companies in that sphere. Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska leads the practice and has experience handling terminations at management level, as well as individual and collective redundancies. Another active member of the practice is Łukasz BurakowskiKatarzyna Magnuska joined the practice from Wardynski & Partners in September 2023.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The Linklaters team provides extremely high-quality employment advice, always explaining our options in a clear, pragmatic manner.'

  • 'It is a pleasure to deal with Linklaters.’

  • ‘The team has great strength and depth, and great knowledge of the financial services sector. Partners are actively involved with advice.’

  • ‘Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska provides exceptional service and always provides commercial advice.’

  • 'They take care of the client through every step of the process, from investigating important details of the case, through mediation and trial, up to the finalisation of compensation payments (if required). They share important updates in a very concise and clear way. They provide clear and meaningful advice, including risk assessment (which is not typical for other firms).'

  • 'Their approach to business continuity, based on the cooperation between counsels in the team, allows them to be on top of every case all the time.'

Key clients

  • Arcelor Mittal
  • Cornerstone
  • Develia
  • InfraVia
  • Intel
  • NREP
  • Perfetti Van Melle
  • Unilever

Work highlights

  • Assisting Agfa, from an employment law perspective, with recent strategic transformation projects.
  • Advising Cornerstone Investment Management, a major private equity investment management firm, on its acquisition of Ecowipes, in cooperation with Kartesia, a European specialist financing provider.
  • Advising on TUPE as well as transactional and strategic issues in relation to the acquisition by the Perfetti Van Melle Group from the Mondelez Group of a chewing gum business in Europe and North America.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska

Other key lawyers

Łukasz Burakowski, Katarzyna Magnuska