Bird & Bird‘s international HR services practice group works closely with colleagues from the firm’s global offices to handle day-to-day support, strategic advice on large-scale transactional matters, and disputes. It has a notable sector focus in technology, including data privacy matters. Pieter De Koster and Anton Aerts co-head the team; De Koster is experienced in high-profile employment litigation and cross-border matters, while Aerts regularly handles transfer of undertakings, corporate restructurings, and redundancies.
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Distinctions

La satisfaction du client

Clients clés

  • Cadence Design Systems
  • C&A
  • Colgate-Palmolive
  • Straumann Group
  • Cooper Consumer Health
  • Vlerick Business School
  • Neste
  • Patria Oyj
  • Elanco
  • Salesforce

Points forts

  • Advised Elanco on the full process of setting up a European works council, governed by German law. The assistance included benchmarking contract details towards industry standards, advising on strategic issues, and securing management positions in contract negotiations.
  • Assisted Straumann Group, a Swiss-based group in the dental care industry, with the set-up of a European works council, incl strategic issues on governance, composition, governing law etc.
  • Assisted Zoom with both collective and individual labour law issues.

Avocats

Les grands avocats de demain

Jeunes associés disposant d’une reconnaissance montante sur le marché, jouant régulièrement un rôle clé dans des dossiers majeurs.

Anton Aerts

Responsable de la pratique

Pieter De Koster; Anton Aerts

Autres avocats clés

Cecilia Lahaye