Baker McKenzie

We are looking for Lawyers to join our market leading Employment Practice in our newly established team in Belfast working primarily with our London team as well as across the region and the globe.

Our Employment team work with our clients on the full range of domestic and international employment issues. We work with a broad range of blue chip and global clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, TMT, pharmaceutical, transport, consumer and retail. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team in Belfast working alongside and as an integral part of the London team handling high quality, varied and interesting work.  This will include global projects and transactions, high profile domestic instructions, complex litigation, and strategic HR advisory work.

Responsibilities:

Examples of matters you can be involved in include: 

Transactions:

• Advising on diligence reviews and preparing diligence reports
• Co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional disclosure schedules
• Advising on global business carve outs in advance of sales and post-acquisition integrations
• Advising on when TUPE applies and relevant consequences, for example, protection against dismissal, changing terms and conditions, the election of worker representatives and protective awards
• Advising on TUPE information and consultation requirements
• Drafting and negotiating relevant provisions in core transactional documentation; Advising on other associated transactional matters as required

Redundancy:

• Advising on when a redundancy situation arises and requirements of individual and collective redundancy procedures
• Advising on domestic issues such as   pooling and the application of appropriate selection criteria

Multi-jurisdictional projects:

• Being part of a team working on global or multi-jurisdictional projects, such as restructuring exercises, global policy or contract reviews, pay equity reviews and other compliance projects
• Co-ordinating and reviewing global advice to prepare centralised advice to clients

Litigation:

• Working on Employment Tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and equal pay claims
• Managing and conducting disclosure exercises
• Preparing ET3 forms, Grounds of Resistance and witness statements
• Advising on and negotiating settlements
• Advising on the enforceability of restrictive covenants

Investigations:

• Conducting fact finding investigations into employee allegations, including grievances and whistleblowing allegations;
• Advising on investigation procedures including scoping

Data Subject Access Requests:

• Preparing data privacy notices
• Advising on applicable search terms in response to data subject access requests
• Reviewing and redacting documents as required

Travel requirements: Some travel may be required.

Essential Criteria

To be successful in this role you will need:

Skills and Experience:

• Qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland and/or England and Wales
• Excellent academics coupled with evidence of good quality training and strong employment experience gained from a leading employment practice
• Good commercial mind-set, a strong team player and have the ability to build excellent relationships with clients

At Baker McKenzie we are different in the way we think, work and behave. With our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 locally admitted lawyers, in over 70 offices worldwide, we have a passionately collaborative community of 60 nationalities and are committed to world-class career development to everyone in every job at every level. Baker McKenzie can offer you both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm paired with a passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment.

Working at Baker McKenzie:

Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Centre is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.

We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity for all and are confident we can provide a career as individual and as exceptional as you.

Baker McKenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion for all. Our unique international culture is reflected in the drawing together of a worldwide family of individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds in all of our offices. We encourage the best people - regardless of race, religion or belief if any, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation or age - to fulfill their professional aspirations with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates.