Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Good employee relations are a vital part of your business’s success. Eversheds Sutherland’s labor and employment practices offer an integrated and coordinated service across all jurisdictions, tailored to your needs. Wherever your you operate, we are on hand to deliver the best advice on managing your company’s most important assets – the people who make it work.

Experienced labor and employment lawyers

Eversheds Sutherland’s labor and employment practices have more than half a century of experience advising a wide range of organizations, from blue-chip FTSE and Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and owner-managed businesses. Chambers & Partners legal directory recognizes us as a team “synonymous with quality and value for money.”

We offer advice in the following areas:

• benefits and compensation, recruitment, hiring, discipline and termination
• model employment contracts and service agreements for separate international jurisdictions
• all types of employment litigation including discrimination
• workplace policies and procedures
• day-to-day HR advice
• employment litigation, class actions and cross-border disputes
• acquisitions, business transfer, M&A, outsourcing (both domestic and international)
• international secondments
• european works councils and other international labor relations issues
• cross-border corporate reorganization
• employment aspects of operational reorganizations, such as redundancy
• employment aspects of business-critical incidents, such as competition authority investigations and treatment of implicated employees
• multi-jurisdictional compliance, global mobility and immigration issues
• Brexit
• personnel records and employee data privacy

Our labor and employment law experience

Our international employment and labor lawyers have extensive experience in cross-jurisdictional HR work. This includes advising:

• a leading international supplier of recycled packaging for consumer goods on its €1.6 billion acquisition and communication with more than 12,000 employees at 110 different sites in 33 different jurisdictions
• a global professional services provider on strategy and implementation of an employment restructuring program across 13 jurisdictions
• a leading global investment bank on changing its remuneration and benefits structures across a number of jurisdictions
• one of the world's largest defense companies on changing terms and conditions for its 120 most senior executives worldwide
• a leading business services provider on the implementation of new business processes and connected creation of shared services centers to serve a number of jurisdictions
• a global energy business on a proposed new structure for its international assignments, involving the use of a hub company in one country (not the HQ country) to employ all international assignees on a fixed-term basis
• a European country's government department on the outsourcing of security services in its embassies in more than 25 European territories
• a major online travel and leisure business on restructuring operations in six European jurisdictions

§  “Diversity at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP” to “Diversity at Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP”

§  “Diversity” section:

o   The firm’s emphasis on diversity is reflected in numerous ways throughout the firm, such as the manner in which we recruit lawyers and other employees, our work-life policies and our professional service efforts. We have been recognized for our achievements in diversity.  More importantly, we understand the significant role a diverse community plays in the firm's growth and development.

§  “Our Awards and Recognitions” section:

o   Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP continues to be recognized for its efforts to promote diversity in the workplace and in the legal profession. In 2016 we were named a “Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality,” having earned a perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, and we also were ranked a Top 100 Firm for Minority Attorneys by Law360. In addition, the firm was awarded the Gold Standard Certification for the fifth consecutive year by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum.

§  “Our Commitment” section:

o   Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is committed to promoting diversity within the firm and in the legal profession.  We believe that diverse skills, knowledge and viewpoints make us a stronger, more productive law firm.  We hire and promote qualified lawyers and other professionals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.  We understand that diversity enhances our value to clients by allowing us to staff our client teams with professionals who possess broad experiences and a spectrum of perspectives.

o   Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP has a cross-office Diversity Committee with responsibility for supporting and enhancing our firm culture.  Our committee has helped coordinate and lead a number of efforts to advance diversity within our firm and the community. Affinity groups at the firm serve as support networks for attorneys of color; women lawyers; and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender attorneys.

o   We are committed to working with our clients as they pursue the common goal of a professional workplace where opportunity is available to all.