Bird & Bird LLP provides legal advice on the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues, including data protection, cross-border restructuring and investigations. Drawing on its global platform, the firm represents many large multinational clients from the technology, retail and life sciences sectors. Practice head Tim Spillane has longstanding experience in senior-level terminations, restrictive covenant cases and discrimination disputes. Alison Dixon comfortably handles all aspects of employment law, including cross-border HR issues, severance negotiations and drafting contractual and policy documentation. Furat Ashraf is another name to note. Ian Hunter retired in October 2024.
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- 'Extremely reactive and provide pragmatic and balanced legal advice. Very reliable team.'
- ‘The team are very responsive and have provided us with clear and concise advice. Often, given the team's area of practice, we need very good practical advice about how to deal with sensitive situations. The team is great at guiding us through those difficult situations to achieve a satisfactory result.’
- ‘We work closely with Tim Spillane and his team. Tim is very responsive to our needs and appreciates the urgency that is often involved in employment situations. He's very experienced and so has often seen it before, which provides us with comfort that the approach suggested will achieve the desired result. On more run-of-the-mill assignments, the team has done as we've asked and updated our documentation to a high standard and again been responsive to our needs.’
- ‘Jon Goldsworthy is super responsive, diligent and gives excellent strategic advice.’
Key clients
- Jet2.com Limited/Jet2holidays/Jet2 plc Edwards Lifesciences
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Tim Spillane
Practice head
Tim Spillane
Other key lawyers
Alison Dixon; Furat Ashraf; Jonathan Goldsworthy