Our Global Human Capital & Compliance team helps clients develop and implement centralized and consistent global solutions to their workforce compliance, risk, growth and management challenges. We serve as primary employment counsel for a number of the world’s largest companies. Our team has deep experience partnering with our clients to implement business changes that impact their people — modifying workforce structures, entering new markets or applying a unified corporate culture across a global workforce.  

The key element that differentiates us from our competitors is our centralized model and the experience and credentials of our team. We have an integrated team of highly experienced partners who have dealt with more than 500 multijurisdictional workforce projects covering 170 countries for some of the world’s largest companies. We use a central point of contact partner-led client team to ensure efficiency and consistency and to capture and apply our experience and institutional knowledge.

We help clients address the full life cycle of employment issues, including: 

Compliance & Risk Management 

Complex and multijurisdictional compliance-related employment law issues: 

• employment documents, workplace policies, handbooks and company regulations 
• working hours/overtime 
• leave entitlements and requirements 
• health & safety 
• privacy & data protection, including protection of employers' proprietary and confidential information 
• anti-discrimination and harassment issues 
• corporate compliance measures such as codes of conduct, whistleblowing, and anti-bribery programs 
• management of employee grievances/claims 
• diversity and inclusion  
• workplace investigations  
• government contractor obligations  
• class action and other complex employment litigation 

Strategic  

Strategic and commercial HR arrangements, including: 

• employment and contingent workforce arrangements and structures, including for remote work 
• retirement, health and benefit plans  
• confidential information and IP issues 
• executive compensation and equity plans 
• international assignment/ transfer structures 
• general retention and compensation arrangements, including commission and bonus arrangements 
• non-compete/non-solicitation arrangements 
• terminations—complex individual and large-scale reductions in force 
• labor relations and union strategy 

Transactional 

We advise on employment and labor issues arising from cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, joint ventures and outsourcings, including: 

• HR due diligence 
• international employment structures 
• advice regarding union and/or works council consultation 
• business transfer issues 
• post-transaction workforce integration issues