Cross-Border and International Employment Law

With a dedicated global network of lawyers, we provide clients with pragmatic, practical advice on operating internationally with your key business goals in mind. Our specialist teams around the world help you navigate complex issues while working to your commercial needs.

Overview

Our team provides expert guidance on cross-border employment law regulation and compliance that aligns with international business needs in today's globalised world.

Our employment team assists multinationals, and those aspiring to operate across borders, by distilling complex and locally nuanced legal concepts into clear, pragmatic advice that can be used to support your strategic business objectives.

We work with a comprehensive network of trusted employment lawyers across all continents, including our specialist in-house employment law teams based in Dublin and Chile, to provide our clients with a single and consistent source of advice.

With a proven track record of understanding our clients’ expectations, we are confident that our network delivers the same quality of service our clients have come to expect for UK matters. Our lawyers consistently demonstrate their ability to work to strict protocols around cost, service delivery, and commerciality.

It is important to us that we provide clients with certainty over their legal costs. So, in most cases, we deliver cross-border project work based on an agreed capped fee.

Featured experience

  • Advising on a 21 country restructuring project for the world's largest security technology group. The complex matter involved works councils in both France and Germany and collective dismissals in Italy and Spain as well as advice in lesser known jurisdictions from South Korea, to Kenya to Guatemala. Our support enabled the client to announce in all jurisdictions, on the same date, complying with local law.
  • Acting on the licence of our client's ophthalmology gene therapy to a competitor in all its markets outside the UK in a commercial deal worth up to $170m. This impacted employees under the Acquired Rights Directive in nine jurisdictions across the Middle East and South America. We were able to advise on this short-turnaround project, including preparing the documentation in each jurisdiction, choreographing the announcement day itself, and preparing and negotiating the settlement packages.
  • Acting for one of the top five global investment banks on its compliance project. The client's aim was to publish centralised and uniform employee-facing data protection documents across its 25 European jurisdictions. Using our network of partner firms we coordinated the review and produced a single source information document, with linked standalone guidance for each jurisdiction where additional information was required to comply with local law.

What our clients say

  • Georgina is super knowledgeable and commercial, with the right approach and attitude to solve complicated issues.

    Chambers and Partners UK – Global 2024: Employment

  • She (Georgina) is an outstanding client partner who is fantastic to work with.

    Chambers and Partners UK – Global 2024: Employment

  • Georgina operates as a true partner in ensuring we are provided with actionable, real-world advice in multiple jurisdictions.

    Chambers and Partners UK – Global 2024: Employment

  • DAC Beachcroft have been a pleasure to work with. We were incredibly pleased with how they collated and interpreted advice from 31 jurisdictions in an efficient, concise and practical way which we were able to forward directly to the business stakeholders.

    Senior Data Privacy Counsel – Major Global Insurer

  • We have worked on several projects with DAC Beachcroft. The people have broad experience in organizing projects with several jurisdictions involved. Everyone is focused, to-the-point and I am always given a clear budget in relation to fees. We always enjoy working with the colleagues from DAC and look forward to new projects.

    Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft, partner firm, Germany

Cross-Border and International Employment Law key contacts

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¿Por qué elegir DAC Beachcroft?

Somos un bufete comercial de amplia base que presta servicios a una gran variedad de sectores, con una sólida herencia en seguros,
salud e inmobiliario. Combinamos excelentes conocimientos jurídicos y experiencia de vanguardia para diseñar soluciones en
que se adapten a las necesidades de nuestros clientes, a menudo con un uso inteligente de la tecnología.