Redundancy & Reorganisations
Restructuring with fairness, foresight and compliance
Whether reshaping teams, reducing headcount or managing large-scale restructuring, organisations need advice they can act on with confidence. If handled poorly, restructures can damage morale, invite litigation and harm reputation. If your business is considering redundancies, changing employees’ contracts or another form of reorganisation, seeking early guidance is essential.
How we help
Our team combines commercial understanding with legal expertise to guide employers through these processes efficiently and fairly. We help with:
- Designing fair and robust selection procedures.
- Conducting collective and individual consultations.
- Advising on alternatives to redundancy, such as changes to terms, reduced hours and pay, or deferral of bonuses.
- Negotiating and drafting settlement agreements to resolve matters efficiently and protect against future claims.
Providing ongoing support after restructures to address any unforeseen issues with minimal disruption.
Recent work highlights:
- Hospitality sector: advising a national hotel chain on a redundancy exercise following the closure of one of its hotels. Our advice covered TUPE issues, consultation materials, settlement agreements and ongoing queries throughout the process.
- A global business: following a global restructure we advised this multi-national company on a redundancy exercise which included advising on the thresholds for collective redundancy.
- A Middle Eastern banking group: providing advice on a redundancy process involving senior employees and the complexities of the legal and regulatory implications around this.
- Real estate sector: negotiating the voluntary redundancy of a senior individual based overseas. This involved navigating issues around employment status and agreeing on a satisfactory settlement.
- Global charitable foundation: providing technical advice to the Board on a complex global restructure, including advising on the UK requirements for office closures, headcount reduction, and redundancy and consultation obligations, as well as guiding union negotiations.
