Whether you’re closing an acquisition, selling a business, restructuring following a business transfer, negotiating a commercial or outsourcing deal, or managing the difficult process of insolvency, we provide clear, pragmatic and tailored support.
How we help
- Advising on the practical operation of TUPE and its implications for your business, including for contract negotiations.
- Supporting businesses in meeting TUPE consultation obligations, including assisting with internal communications and other practical support.
- Conducting due diligence and advising on and negotiating the HR and employee provisions of business purchase agreements, share purchase agreements and pre-packs.
- Drafting and negotiating employment protections in outsourcing agreements and tender documentation.
- Advising on post-transfer integration and harmonisation issues and redundancies.
- Advising on the wider implications and aspects of business transfers including pensions, immigration issues, sponsor licence compliance, reporting obligations and right to work checks.
Our experience includes
- Supporting a publishing group on the proposed intra-group transfer of approximately 600 employees, addressing risks under TUPE and potential breaches of redundancy collective consultation obligations.
- Providing strategic advice to a global cybersecurity specialist on an urgent intragroup reorganisation including the implementation of redundancies (and potential collective consultation), negotiation of its settlement agreements and TUPE (employee transfer) consultation.
- Providing vital advice to a pizza restaurant chain, helping it to shape and implement HR and regulatory strategy, including assisting in managing the termination and acquisition of franchise agreements and stores along with hundreds of employees.
- Strategic support to rescue 50 jobs at the UK subsidiary of a German advertising firm, securing its transfer to a competitor after its main client severed its contract which caused financial difficulties for the German advertising firm.
- Providing complex TUPE advice to a food business looking to sell the shares of a subsidiary company and prior to the acquisition needed to transfer employees from the parent company to the subsidiary company.
