Our employment, pensions and benefits practice advises clients on domestic, international and transnational issues, with a significant emphasis on Europe, given the broad application of EU legislation in the labour law field.

We advise on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law. Our work includes advising on the individual and collective employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions; executive remuneration and related regulatory and disclosure obligations; service contracts and related documents; confidentiality and restrictive covenants; work councils; individual and group severance arrangements; and contracting out of services.

Our lawyers have particular expertise in all the legal aspects of establishing and operating pension schemes; restructuring pension arrangements, and merging and winding-up schemes; and pension scheme disputes, including court proceedings.

We also specialise in advising on employee share options plans and profit sharing schemes; long-term incentive plans for senior executives; management participation in management buy-outs and management buy-ins; and employee incentive schemes, including profit related pay and phantom option schemes.

For more information please contact our international practice development lawyer Jean-François Gerard at jean-francois.gerard@freshfields.com. For careers information choose the Recruitment link in the left hand menu.

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Briefings

Pensions EU white paper An Agenda for Adequate, Safe and Sustainable Pensions  View

Directors’ remuneration – government consultation on binding shareholder votes  View

EPBnet

Online access to our cross border materials on topical employment and pensions law issues.

Webcasts

Pensions seminar on recent developments.

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