L&E GLOBAL

Chairman: John Sander

Executive Director: Jeroen Douwes

Number of partners worldwide: 500+

Number of lawyers worldwide: 1,750+

Number of offices worldwide: 170+

Languages: English, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin and Shanghai dialect), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Indian (Bengali and Hindi), Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

Network Overview

Service and Quality are Everything at L&E Global

L&E Global is the worldwide leader for cross-border labour and employment law services. Spanning 5 continents, L&E Global’s member firms are ideally situated to provide clients with pragmatic, commercial advice necessary to achieve their objectives, wherever they operate. L&E Global’s members work closely with corporate, legal, human resources departments and corporate executives across a variety of sectors and industries to address the strategic and tactical issues that arise in the workplace. Over the years, L&E Global has received accolades from esteemed legal industry insiders, including (among others) Chambers Global (‘The Elite’ in Global-Wide Employment Law Networks), The Lawyer European Awards (‘Global Network of the Year’) and The Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report (Commended as a ‘Legal Industry Pioneer’ - Commended for ‘Innovation in International Strategy’ - Commended as an ‘Innovator in Growth and Business Development’).

Expertise

Global Presence, Local Perspective

Even in the era of far-reaching international trade agreements and regional economic and political partnerships, the majority of laws and regulations governing the workplace are still determined by the individual countries where employees work. Employment and pension law is comprehensive, but also complex and at times even contradictory. Alliance contacts with employment law specialists in 80+ countries worldwide help clients navigate the maze of legal regulations and labour law issues affecting businesses across the globe, namely:

■ Assessing workplace compliance challenges

■ Collective redundancies

■ Works councils (co-determination and consultation)

■ Cross-border trade union actions

■ Transfer of undertakings

■ Data protection

■ Employee codes of conduct, policies and work rules

■ Pensions and other employee benefits

■ Minimising and defending claims of discrimination

■ Global mobility/immigration

■ Training programmes: executives, company, seminars, webinars, workshops

Enriched Client Services

Specialised Knowhow and Innovative Legal-Tech Solutions

L&E Global’s members are committed to offering clients the most comprehensive legal analysis capabilities and insight from around the world. From interactive micro-sites to webinars, seminars and global handbooks, L&E Global offers clients a customised selection of knowhow services to benefit their businesses, specifically designed to help employers stay up-to-date on the trending legal issues that could impact the workplace. L&E Global has long since recognised that innovation is key to every business, including the legal industry. L&E Global, together with its member firms, launched a range of resources, projects and working-groups dedicated to the research and development of legal technology tools aimed at increasing and streamlining efficiency and improving client services. Through these combined efforts, the network is spearheading cutting-edge legal technology solutions for today’s market and into the future.

International Work

Clients

In a world where law firms’ quality of service and fees are under constant pressure, L&E Global’s member firms have successfully deepened and diversified their existing practices in order to provide comprehensive employment law services to clients ranging from large, multinational corporations to entrepreneurial and emerging companies seeking to enter international markets. In order to better meet the needs of its clients and to reflect the reality of their business, the network has bundled its expertise into several key sectors:

■ Technology, Media & Communications

■ Financial Services

■ Manufacturing

■ Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

■ Consumer Products

■ Retail

■ Energy

■ Automotive

Select Client Engagements

■ L&E GLOBAL’s member firms were selected by an e-procurement platform enterprise to transform the client’s legal structure into a Societas Europaea. Countries involved: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Spain.

■ L&E GLOBAL, together with Clyde & Co UK, submitted an RfQ for a diversity and inclusion project for a publisher. All firms involved were subsequently instructed. The following countries were requested: UK, Germany, Spain, Norway, Sweden, USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and India.

■ L&E GLOBAL’s member firms are acting for an American multinational investment firm: advice on global diversity and inclusion issues in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the UAE and the UK.

■ L&E GLOBAL’s member firms are assisting an American commercial real estate company that provides flexible shared workspaces for technology start-ups and services for other enterprises: the client requested advice on global diversity and inclusion. Jurisdictions involved are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea and the UK.

■ L&E GLOBAL, together with Jackson Lewis (USA), was retained to conduct global employment law due diligence by an investment firm in an acquisition. The firms involved in the due diligence projects: the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, China, Canada, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Romania and our best friends in Bulgaria, Denmark, South Africa and Greece.

■ L&E GLOBAL secured a new client: a platform that helps companies through the process of hiring, onboarding and then providing contractors with HR services, leading to instructions in Brazil, Italy, India, Sweden, Australia, Singapore, Bosnia and Denmark.

Offices

ARGENTINA

Allende & Brea - Buenos Aires

AUSTRALIA

Harmers Workplace Lawyers - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

BELGIUM

Van Olmen & Wynant - Brussels

BRAZIL

TozziniFreire Advogados - São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Campinas, Porto Alegre

CANADA

Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti - Toronto, Ontario, London, Hamilton

CHILE

Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos - Santiago

CHINA

Zhong Lun Law Firm - nationwide, including Beijing and Shanghai

COLOMBIA

López & Asociados - Bogotá and Medellín

CZECH REPUBLIC

Havel & Partners - Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Pilsen, Olomouc and Ostrava

FRANCE

Flichy Grangé Avocats - Paris

GERMANY

Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law - Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg and Cologne

INDIA

Khaitan & Co - Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi and Hyderabad

IRELAND

LK Shields - Dublin

ITALY

Zambelli & Partners - Milan

JAPAN

Atsumi & Sakai - Tokyo

LUXEMBOURG

Kleyr | Grasso - Luxembourg City

MEXICO

De la Vega & Martínez Rojas - Mexico City

THE NETHERLANDS

Palthe Oberman - Amsterdam

NORWAY

Helmr - Oslo

PERU

Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera Abogados - based in Lima, with 11 offices nationwide

PHILIPPINES

Villaraza & Angangco Law Office - Manila

POLAND

Sobczyk & Partners Law Firm - Kraków, Warsaw

PORTUGAL

SRS Legal - Lisbon

ROMANIA

Magda Volonciu & Associates - Bucharest, Constanţa

SINGAPORE

Clyde & Co Clasis - Singapore

SPAIN

Suárez de Vivero - Barcelona and Madrid

SWEDEN

Cederquist - Stockholm

SWITZERLAND

lelex Attorneys at Law - Zurich

TÜRKIYE

Moroglu Arseven - Istanbul

UNITED KINGDOM

Clyde & Co - London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford,...

USA

Jackson Lewis - Offices in 60+ cities incl. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Miami,...