Roxane Kilic
Biography
Roxane is an associate in the Employment & Compensation Department of Baker McKenzie's London office. She joined the Firm as a trainee in September 2019. As part of her training contract, Roxane spent time in the Corporate Reorganisations, Employment, Tax and Intellectual Property & Technology departments. She also completed a three-month secondment to Tapestry in March 2021 where she undertook a combination of Corporate, Tax and EU work. She subsequently qualified as an associate and was admitted as a solicitor in September 2021, and now advises on employment law matters across a wide variety of sectors, as well as on international deals and multijurisdictional projects. Roxane also completed a six-month secondment to Meta's in-house employment team in September 2024.
Practice Focus
Roxane advises international organisations on both contentious and noncontentious employment law matters across a variety of sectors, including tech, pharmaceutical, retail, media, banking and financial services. Roxane has advised on a range of global employment projects including restructurings, M&As and carve-outs, as well as domestic day-to-day advisory work, providing support on employment-related disputes and complex HR enquiries.
Representative Legal Matters
- Acted for Emerson Electric Co on the international employment aspects of its sale of its Climate Technologies business for USD 14 billion to Blackstone, including the carveout of the workforce, which comprised over 20,000 employees across 44 jurisdictions.
- Provided a wide variety of day-to-day employment advice with a domestic and international focus under a retainer with a global technology company, including disciplinary proceedings, grievances and sickness absence.
- Advised multinational consumer healthcare company on data protection compliance from an employment perspective.
- Advised global technology client on strategy and process on a large-scale global redundancy, including individual and collective redundancy requirements in 15 jurisdictions.
- Coordinated and advised on settlement negotiations in redundancy exercise of 100+ employees as part of UK restructuring for banking and financial services client.
- Acted for a multinational banking and financial services corporation in responding to a claim from a former employee for breach of discrimination legislation in the Employment Tribunal.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Law Society of England & Wales - Member
- Employment Lawyers Association - Member
Admissions
- England & Wales (2021)
Education
- BPP Law School (Legal Practice Course distinction) (2019)
- University of Bristol (LLB first class honours) (2015)
Languages
- English
- French
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an English partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.