Employment & Executive
Employment counsel from workforce strategy to sensitive executive matters.
Employment that supports the business, not the other way around.
We advise employers on the full range of employment matters — from workforce strategy and executive appointments to sensitive exits, disputes, and industrial relations.
Our team is trusted for practical, commercially-aware counsel and for principled handling of the sensitive personal matters that reach board level.
- Executive appointments & exits
- Workforce restructuring
- Employment disputes
- Industrial relations
How we approach this practice.
We advise on employment disputes at senior executive level, including terminations, restrictive covenants, and board-level exits arising from governance failures.
Our work extends to equity incentives and ESOP design, ensuring founder and management interests remain aligned through dilution events and ownership change.
Employment, across every angle.
Board and C-suite appointments, exits, and severance arrangements.
Bespoke contracts, restrictive covenants, and incentive arrangements.
Redundancy, redeployment, and TUPE-equivalent transfer arrangements.
Employment and Labour Relations Court advocacy and dispute resolution.
Trade union engagement, collective bargaining, and industrial action management.
Workplace investigations, conduct matters, and whistleblower protection.
A disciplined path from concept to close.
- 01Commercial Alignment
We start with the commercial map — economics, control, contributions, and outcome — before drafting a single clause.
- 02Structural Blueprint
A structuring memo sets out the vehicle, jurisdiction, tax treatment, and regulatory path, benchmarked against comparable matters.
- 03Documentation
Bespoke documentation drafted as an integrated instrument set — designed to survive later scrutiny.
- 04Approvals & Closing
Regulator engagement, condition-precedent management, and a disciplined closing choreography.
- 05Stewardship
Ongoing counsel through the life of the matter — governance, calendaring, and dispute-prevention.
Selected employment mandates.
A partial view of the mandates we have advised on — sanitised for confidentiality, but indicative of the scale and complexity of our work.
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Advised a listed group on the exit of a senior executive on sensitive terms.
- 02
Represented an employer through a complex Employment and Labour Relations Court dispute.
- 03
Counsel to a regional group on a workforce restructuring across three jurisdictions.
- 04
Led a workplace investigation into conduct matters at a regulated financial institution.
Partners leading the practice.
Where this work connects.
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