EMPLOYMENT LAW SENIOR ASSOCIATE - LUXEMBOURG

Job description

EMPLOYMENT LAW SENIOR ASSOCIATE - LUXEMBOURG

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit an employment law lawyer from 6 years PQE to join our Employment Team in Luxembourg.

Background

Our Global Employment and Reward Group has over 100 employment lawyers across our international offices. We have one of the best resourced teams of employment specialists within our global practice, offering both national coverage from our office in Luxembourg and an international offering through our employment specialists in our other European offices, the Gulf and Asia Pacific.

We act as trusted advisor to a number of leading FTSE blue chip organisations in multiple jurisdictions which are additional to Luxembourg and include the UK , Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, the Gulf and Asia Pac. Our clients rely upon us to help them not only with technical legal issues but also to act as true business partners, understanding the particular challenges and opportunities within their respective sectors and businesses.

We pride ourselves on being commercially aware, client focused, pragmatic and responsive. We provide our clients with innovative commercial solutions and diversity of thought, not merely details of the legal issues. Our approach has resulted in us developing long term relationships and partnerships with clients, many of whom are household name companies.

Our Luxembourg office advises on contentious and non-contentious matters for domestic and international clients. Our work regularly involves an international dynamic, working closely with colleagues in our international offices. For example, we regularly advise clients on cross border information and consultation, and global mobility. Our Luxembourg office also advises clients in relation to executive level employment law such as senior level recruitment and termination, executive compensation arrangements, bonus claims, and enforcement of restrictive covenants. We also assist clients with day-to-day employment queries, such as managing sickness absences, dealing with bullying allegations and restructuring .

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 employees and operating out of 26 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant international credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

We aim to promote progress and change so that our business can work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity & inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which it's people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers staff flexibility in terms of where they work.

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology & project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.

Awards

Pinsent Masons has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, won the \"Law Firm of the Year Award 2019 - Legal Business\" for the second time and is recognised among the most innovative law firms in Europe by the Financial Times. Pinsent Masons was also named Law Firm of the Year 2018 by The Lawyer and is ranked No 1 on the UK Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2019.

Candidate Summary

The successful candidate will ideally be a 6+ PQE lawyer having trained in either a top tier Luxembourg firm or international firm and the individual will have an ambition to support the growth and development of our Luxembourg employment team, as part of a global offering.

The role will involve providing day-to-day legal advice to HR professional clients and their in-house legal teams. It will also involve litigation and work investigations (for example, supporting our white collar crime team with the HR aspects of regulatory investigations). In addition to the contentious practice there will also be an opportunity to help our clients deliver solutions within the M&A and outsourcing space. The successful candidate will also work closely with corporate colleagues on transactional matters and will be involved in all aspects of the team's workload.

The Global Employment & Reward Group are increasingly engaging with clients on strategic projects such as global change management exercises, reward philosophy projects and preparing for the implementation of gender pay gap legislation.

Candidates will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about business development. They will also be a team player with excellent communication skills and a desire to be actively involved in business development.

As well as having the experience mentioned above, the candidate should be:

• Ambitious and enthusiastic about winning new clients.
• Happy to work on creating marketing material, pitches, client meetings, know-how and being involved in business development - this is a growing team and accordingly we would like the candidate to take an active part in that.
• A dynamic team player who can work with different teams and lawyers across the firm and work in an organized, reactive and autonomous way; and
• Keen to work in a growing international firm that is making headlines.
• Completed the Cours Complémentaires de Droit Luxembourgeois and are registered to the bar of Luxembourg.
• At least 6 years' experience in employment law in Luxembourg.
• Being fluent in French, English and German, Luxembourgish would be an asset.

The Opportunity

• The very best national and international work.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
• Genuine long-term career prospects supported through our \"best in class\" training and our Academy personal development programmes.
• Managing employment law cases, in direct contact with clients.
• Advising clients on all matters relating to employment law and social security law, such as recruitment, drafting of employment contracts and amendments, modification of working conditions, secondment, transfer of business, individual or collective dismissal, negotiation and drafting of out-of-court agreements, and more generally HR support.
• Representation and defense of clients' interests before the courts.
• Contributing to the know-how and development of our database, as well as sharing it.
• Writing articles and contributing to conferences.

What will we offer you?

• An attractive salary package.
• A dynamic and friendly workplace.
• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development program. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver \"best of breed\" services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

S hould you require further details, please contact our local HR Manager Catherine De Rosa who can discuss the role and requirements.

If you are interested in this position, please send your application to Catherine de Rosa, HR

Manager, [email protected] . All application will be treated strictly
confidentially.We are currently looking to recruit an employment law lawyer from 6 years PQE to join our Employment Team in Luxembourg.