Alex Denny

U.K. Employment Counsel

• Fair procedures for recruitment and selection
• Employee status and the implications of the employment relationship
• Contracts of employment, service agreements, and employment policies and procedures
• Grievance and disciplinary procedures, including minimum statutory procedures
• Post-termination restrictions and the enforcement of those restrictions
• Health and safety issues
• Race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age discrimination
• Effective management of staff and, where appropriate, dismissal
• Severance agreements on behalf of both employers and senior employees, including the tax implications 
• Transactional work, including outsourcing and business reorganization
• Collective redundancies and restructuring exercises
•  Conduct of Employment Tribunal and EAT litigation, strategic issues and settlement
• Transfers in the public sector

International Experience

• Foreign assignments and secondments
• Foreign hires
• Expatriate agreements
• International equality and diversity issues (both contentious and non-contentious)
• Merger, acquisition and joint venture transactions involving multinational parties
• Labor and employment laws applicable to U.K. facilities of foreign-owned enterprises
• Management of local counsel on global restructuring exercises