Linklaters leverages its international network to support clients in a broad range of employment law matters. The team frequently handles cross-border reorganisations, employment aspects of M&A transactions, compensation and benefits, compliance and employment disputes. Lionel Vuidard brings decades of experience in high-profile litigation, while Géric Clomes focuses on transactional advice, crisis management and multi-jurisdictional mandates for banks, private equity funds and multinational corporations. Alice Klein excels at the employment aspects of M&A transactions.
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- The team is aligned, the message is clear, and communication is fluid.
- I work with Cécile Boulé and Géric Clomes. They are both very available, flexible, responsive and pragmatic. They know how to meet our needs.
- ‘Highly specialised technical expertise and consistently excellent responsiveness. Their approach is very pragmatic, focused on proposing concrete solutions. I have had the opportunity to work with Géric Clomes on several occasions, who stands out in particular for his experience in complex negotiated compensation and departures.'
- ‘This team delivers exceptional work, providing technical, precise and pragmatic answers to questions posed. They possess significant legal expertise, particularly in M&A transactions, negotiations for the departure of top managers, crisis management (redundancy plans, strikes, whistleblowing rights), compensation and benefits matters, internal investigations, and litigation of all kinds (both individual and collective, including those arising from redundancy plans). The lawyers' technical skill, availability, and professionalism are the hallmarks of the team.'
Key clients
- Brookfield
- Unilever
- CGI
- Perfetti Van Melle Group B.V.
- Carrier Global Corporation
- Britvic
- BlueFloat
- Allianz Direct
- Bonhams
- Brainlab
- Sierra Wireless SA
- Lyondellbasel
- Bleu
- ArcelorMittal France SAS
- Iberdrola Energía Internacional
- RTL
- Roland Berger Holding GmbH & Co. KG
- The TCW Group, Inc.
- Principal Asset Management
- Assured Guaranty
Work highlights
Advised Brookfield and Data4, a European data centre operator, on the employment law aspects of the sale of interests in Data4’s European stabilised data centre portfolio to Arjun and Interogo.
Advised Carrier Global Corporation on the employment aspects of the sale of its global commercial refrigeration business for € 705,1m in 2024, as well as the sale of its $3bn commercial and residential fire safety business.
Advised Bleu, a joint venture between Orange and Capgemini specialised in sovereign cloud and data centres, regarding employment law at every stage of its growth.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Lionel Vuidard; Géric Clomes
Other key lawyers
Alice Klein