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Nadia Adnani has been with Palthe Oberman since May 2011. Nadia is concerned with all aspects of employment law and public service law. She assists Dutch and international organisations as well as employees and public servants.

She advises and conducts legal proceedings on matters such as individual and collective redundancies, reorganisations, workplace privacy, and employment contracts (competition clauses, study costs clauses, etc.).

Nadia is involved in the work of War Child and the Najib Amhali Foundation. She also provides guidance in the prestigious programme The Boardroom of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In addition, Nadia regularly writes blogs on employment law topics, provides workshops, and has collaborated on the book ‘The Influence of Dismissal.’

Nadia graduated in the fields of Private Law and International & European Law from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has a broad legal background. Before she started practicing as a lawyer, Nadia worked for the Education Centre of the Vrije Universiteit as a coordinator in the Diversity and Study Success Department.

Pilar Albert obtained her law degree at the University San Pablo CEU of Madrid in 1986. She has also completed an LLM in Human Resources Direction at IDE-CESEM.

She started her professional career in the law firm Estudio Legal and headed the labour law area at Deloitte, Abogados and Araoz & Rueda. Pilar was Human Resources Director at UNED. She joined Suarez de Vivero in April 2018.

Pilar provides legal advice to local and international clients on:

• Labour and employment law
• Employment contracts
• Collective agreements negotiations
• Corporate restructuring
• M&A labour implications (business transfer, outsourcing and sub-contracting of activities)
• Employment benefits
• Due diligence reports
• Individual and collective employee terminations (redundancy procedure)
• Employment litigation
• Industrial disputes
• Social security
• Local, national and European works councils
• Trade union recognition procedures and elections
• Occupational health & safety matters.

She also has extensive experience in representing clients in court and in the negotiation of out-of-court settlements and is comfortable in global, multinational and multidisciplinary environment.

As a principal in the Greenville, South Carolina office of Jackson Lewis P.C., and key member of our International Employment practice group, Chris Anderson plays a pivotal role in the ongoing design and development of the firm’s collaborative and client-focused approach to international employment and mobility issues. He has more than a decade of experience counseling clients in international employment law matters in over 100 countries.
Chris enjoys partnering and developing relationships with his clients and local employment colleagues around the world in order to deliver efficient and effective advice and counsel. He delivers consistent results through his extensive global employment law experience, Jackson Lewis’ relationships with all L&E Global member firms in over 30 countries, and his vast network of local colleagues in almost every other country in the world.
Chris’ practice covers all areas related to advising and assisting clients with cross-border employment strategy and execution including, but not limited to:

• single country and comparative employment laws and regulations (e.g., background checks, recruitment requirements, employment contracts, leave laws, restrictive covenants, data privacy, intellectual property, termination requirements and agreements, etc.);
• preparation of global employee handbooks and codes of conduct;
• global reorganizations and reductions in force;
• due diligence exercises in the M&A context regarding independent contractor/employment issues;
• personnel engagement options in countries where the client does not have a legal presence (e.g., independent contractors, staffing agencies/PEOs, registering as a nonresident employer, etc.);
• remote work issues stemming from employees working outside their home country for personal reasons;
• corporate structuring options and support;
• global immigration support for employees to reside and work outside their home country;
• cross border assignments/secondments of personnel;
• initial tax analysis (both personal and corporate) stemming from employees working outside their home country, or personnel in contractor relationships.

Before deciding to go to law school, Chris attended Princeton Theological Seminary and was a youth and family minister for five years. When not practicing law, he spends as much time as possible with his wife (a pediatrician) and their four children and strives to stay in shape (easier said than done with each passing year).

Håkon Andreassen specialises in collective and individual labour law, as well as personal data and privacy issues. He assists private and public actors both with advice in negotiations and as a legal assistant in disputes. He has extensive experience with reorganisations and downsising, business transfers, staff conflicts, dismissals, notification cases, privacy and pension-related issues.

Håkon’s background includes the establishment and interpretation of collective agreements and related procedures. He also counsels foreign companies on matters of pay and working conditions and the secondment of employees. Head of privacy networks for managers and for legal director networks, Håkon joined Helmr as a partner in 2020.

Florence Bacquet specialises in advising international companies on collective labour law issues: staff representative bodies, collective status, group disputes and litigation with major financial implications. She also advises on restructurings and transfer of undertakings.

A member of the American Bar Association, Florence, who is bilingual, graduated from the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris); she holds two Masters degrees (business and tax law, labour law) from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Florence began to practice with Joël Grangé’s labour law team at Gide Loyrette Nouel in 2007, and joined Flichy Grangé Avocats in 2009. She is actively involved with the firm’s work on legal aspects of the latest digital and information technologies.

Robert Bayne has been a partner of the firm since 1996. Rob advises employers on all aspects of labour and employment law. Rob provides services to a broad range of private sector companies including those in retail, hospitality, manufacturing, logistics and publishing.

Rob received his Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University in 1985. He then worked in human resources and production management with an Ontario manufacturing company prior to attending law school. He graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1989. Rob frequently speaks on labour and employment law issues to employers, human resource professionals and student groups, and has lectured on labour and employment law at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.

Rob has presented papers on Ontario labour law reform at Ontario Bar Association conferences and other continuing legal education events. Rob is a member of the Advocacy Committee of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers and the Canadian Institute Advisory Board on Labour and Employment Law. Rob chairs the firm’s Labour Arbitration Moot Programmes at Queens University, the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph.

Ana Luisa is head of the Employment & Social Security Department, she has extensive experience in advising national and international companies in a variety of sectors, in particular coordinating and implementing administrative employment proceedings and disciplinary actions, as well as on collective dismissals.

With over 20 years of experience, Ana Luísa heads the labour litigation team of the department, as well as the disciplinary action and social security litigation team, and is responsible for establishing action plans/strategies and for supervising judicial lawsuits in labour law and social security.

Ana Luisa began her career as a lawyer in 2002 in CTT, the national post service, having passed to SRS Legal in 2004. She has a law degree from the University of Lisboa and two postgraduation’s, one in Communication Law and other in Employment and Social Security Law.

Partner in the Labor practice group at TozziniFreire’s Campinas office since 2012, Leonardo has been working in the business area for more than 23 years. He has broad experience in collective bargaining negotiations, internal investigations, legal audits and due diligence. He assists clients from many different sectors in lawsuits and administrative proceedings, including those related to strikes, development and execution of contingency plans and profit share programs, as well as strategies for collective dismissals, encouraged resignation and outsourcing services. Leonardo also has significant expertise in the assistance to clients in administrative and inspection procedures carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, as well as preparatory procedures and civil investigations instituted by the Regional Labor Prosecutor’s Office.

Vaibhav Bhardwaj is a Partner in the Employment, Labour and Benefits practice group. Prior to joining the Firm, Vaibhav was a partner at IndusLaw (New Delhi).

With over 15 years of experience, Vaibhav has been practising in the Employment Law and Ethics and Investigations space. He has advised clients on a range of matters across sectors, on structuring of policies, C-Suite level exits, workforce restructuring, employee secondments, closure of undertaking and employment issues in mergers and acquisitions.

He has extensive experience in advising clients on complex matters involving internal disciplinary investigations and inquiries associated with behavioral misconduct, fraud, bribery and corruption charges, ethics violations, sexual harassment and other related matters.

Representative matters:

In his areas of expertise, Vaibhav has advised several prominent clients including:

• Air India on restructuring all contracts and employment terms applicable to flying and non-flying staff. This mandate was undertaken as part of a merger harmonization exercise, pursuant to Air India’s acquisition by the Tata Group.
• Wipro on several complex and unique employment and investigations related matters including investigations concerning moonlighting, and manipulating the background verification process; and workforce restructuring, senior level exits and structuring of separation documents, amongst others.
• Shell India on the statutory considerations in relation to the engagement of contract workers and fixed term contract employees. This also included structuring of their existing manpower supply structure.
• Deliveroo, in setting up its technology hub in India. Advising Deliveroo in several unique and significant matters such as separation of senior level exits, on matters pertaining to its day-to-day affairs, including on applicable data privacy requirements, procedures for effectuating employee separations and the payments required to be made thereunder, procedures for obtaining insurances required under labour laws, and so on.
• A multinational alcohol beverage company which is home to a number of renowned brands on several independent investigations into employees who were suspected of having committed fraud against the company.
• A foreign educational institution on the migration of the provident fund corpus maintained by the institution to the statutory fund maintained by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).
• an American car manufacturer on the legal requirements and procedure under law for closure of one of its large manufacturing facilities in India. The transaction derives its significance from the several complexities, including the proposal to rehabilitate employees, offer of voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) to remaining employees and analysis of the legal requirements for closure in the event there is a sale of assets.
• a leading beverage company in India on diverse subject matters such as strategy to be adopted for retrieval of company assets and confidential information in possession of a former employee and advice on a major potential litigation in the wake of allegations of wrongful termination of an employee during her maternity leave.
• McCormick India on the process of movement of employees and related benefits to an outsourced partner to whom IT operations was proposed to be outsourced.
• a chemical manufacturing company on the strategy to be adopted in termination of the employment of a senior employee who held a prominent public office and had the full support of the trade union.
• A leading renewable power producer in India on a reduction in force (RIF) exercise at eighteen of its locations spread across the length and breadth of India;
• Several large conglomerates on matters relating to prevention of sexual harassment including but not limited to conducting training sessions for employees as well as members of the internal committee; end-to-end assistance to the internal committee to handle sexual harassment complaints; and structuring of the internal committee.

Avik leads the Employment Law Practice Group of Khaitan & Co. Avik is an alumnus of the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) and is well known for his employment law expertise across all industry sectors. Avik is also very well regarded for his strategic advice to the legal and HR functions of multinational corporations in relation to employment risk mitigation/management and related best practices in Indian markets. While Avik’s work primarily revolves around all facets of employment law, he also frequently advises and assists foreign corporations in entering Indian markets and setting up their local operations across India, especially with reference to compliance with local labour legislations. Prior to Khaitan & Co, Avik had the benefit of working both with an in-house team of one of India’s largest technology companies as well as with one of the largest full-service law firms in Bangalore, wherein he established their employment law practice. Avik has been ranked by Chambers and Partners, since 2011, as one of India’s highly recommended employment lawyers.

• Aoife is head of LK Shields Employment, Pensions and Employee Benefits Group and has extensive experience in all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious.
• Aoife provides ongoing support to a range of national and international clients on employment matters and regularly assists clients in developing risk management strategies in respect of employment and litigation issues. She has significant experience in advising on complex and sensitive investigations, employment disputes and negotiating severance arrangements. Aoife has considerable experience advising employers in respect of unfair dismissal claims, employment injunctions, discrimination claims, redundancy issues, the protection of confidential information, disciplinary investigations and related proceedings.
• Aoife has also acted in many high profile employment related disputes involving senior executives and pension and employee benefit related disputes. She regularly represents clients before the WRC and the courts and has extensive experience of successful mediation and dispute resolution.
• Aoife is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on employment issues and a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences on employment law matters. She has had articles published on employment issues in the national and international press and in legal journals.

Verena Braeckeler-Kogel is a partner at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law based in Cologne, Germany.

Verena’s legal practice encompasses all matters of individual and collective labour law. She has particular experience in advising national and international clients in the fields of M&A transactions, restructuring including collective redundancies, plant closures and relocations as well as transfer of undertakings. Another focus of her work is the advice on day-to-day labour law matters. She has particular expertise in the bank and financial service sector, where she also has experience in drafting and implementing remuneration strategies and plans, against the background of regulatory requirements.

Verena joined Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law as a partner in 2018. Before joining the firm, she was the head of the German employment law practice of Simmons & Simmons LLP. Verena gained inhouse experience through a six-month secondment as legal counsel of a US insurer where she built up the German legal department.