EMPLOYMENT AND BENEFITS
Redcliffe Partners’ employment team advises corporate clients operating in a variety of industries on a wide range of employment issues, including the most challenging contentious, transactional, litigation and advisory matters. Our clients value our commercial and solution-oriented approach, as well as genuine local knowledge.
How we are different:
Our employment team has become an adviser of first choice for “an impressive roster of multinational clients” (The Legal 500 EMEA 2022), counselling employers on a wide range of issues, from hiring personnel and developing internal regulations to carrying out major redundancy programmes and unprecedented employee transfers.
Redcliffe Partners’ employment practice group includes experts in employee benefits and executive compensations, tax, data protection, IP and litigation. These considerable resources, coupled with a near-peerless track record, allow us to timely and efficiently address clients’ needs.
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Ranked in Employment
The Legal 500 EMEA 2025
Recognised as an Established Practice
Ukrainian Law Firms: A Handbook for Foreign Clients 2023-2024
Ranked in Employment
The Legal 500 EMEA 2024
Ranked in Employment
The Legal 500 EMEA 2023
Ranked in Employment
The Legal 500 EMEA 2022
Ranked in Employment
The Legal 500 EMEA 2021
Ranked in Employment
“Redcliffe Partners has an impressive roster of multinational clients, including Saudi company SALIC, Belgian investment group Straco and Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s largest oil company.”
The Legal 500 EMEA 2020
- Hire and dismissal of employees in Ukraine
- Employment of foreigners and immigration matters, including obtaining of visas, temporary residency permits and work permits
- Employment contracts
- Collective bargaining contracts
- Redundancies and employee transfers
- Equity option inventive plans
- Engagement of Ukrainian IT professionals
- Employment of executive and non-executive directors
- Internal policies
- Labour protection and employees’ permits
- Negotiations with trade unions
- Due diligence of employment law compliance
- Payroll tax
- Non-compete and non-solicitation covenants
- Settlement of employment disputes, including through the pre-trial process and in court
- IP, confidentiality and data protection matters
- Employment matters as part of larger transactions and projects
Our experience includes advising:
- European Investment Bank on all employment matters arising out of the bank’s operations in Ukraine, including employee benefits matters
- Yazaki Corporation, a global automotive parts supplier, in connection with the redundancy of more than 150 workers at a plant in Western Ukraine
- Scientific Games Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed company that provides gambling products and services, on a wide range of employment matters, including hiring a CTO for one of the client’s subsidiaries, engagement of Ukrainian IT professionals, and non-compete and non-solicitation covenants, as well as the implementation of the client’s equity option incentive plan
- UGV, Ukraine’s largest gas producer, in connection with the development of a strategy for the major transfer of employees working on 13 oil and gas fields in Western Ukraine to the clients’ contractor Expert Petroleum
- Eni on a wide range of employment issues arising out of the company’s operations in Ukraine, including the hiring of foreigners
- MedeAnalytics, a NASDAQ-listed software company, on all employment matters arising out of the company’s operations in Ukraine, including the hiring and retaining of more than 120 IT professionals, and implementation of the client’s equity option incentive plan
- Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s largest oil producer, in connection with the development of a strategy for the unprecedented employee transfer as part of the anticipated PEC project
- Mitsubishi Corporation on various employment matters and establishment of a global corporate whistle-blower hotline
- Aspect Energy and SigmaBleyzer on a wide range of employment matters concerning the entering into and implementation of the Production Sharing Agreement with the Ukrainian Government
- A Turkish industrial holding on a wide range of employment matters arising out of its operations in Ukraine, including the hiring of foreigners
- UiPath, a Sequoia-backed RPA software company, in connection with the hiring of executive directors of its subsidiary in Ukraine
- Amadeus Ukraine in connection with the engagement of Ukrainian IT professionals and employment of foreigners
- Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s largest oil producer, in connection with the development of a strategy for employee transfer as part of the anticipated pre-sale corporate restructuring
- A global healthcare company on employment matters as part of a major cross-border restructuring of the company’s business.
