Oliver Shepley

Oliver advises international organisations on both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters across a variety of sectors, including tech, IT, banking and financial services. Oliver 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. Oliver also assists on workplace investigations on a range of 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 carve-out of the workforce, which comprised over 20,000 employees across 44 jurisdictions.

• Acted for Sika AG in their acquisition of MBCC Group, including a partial carve-out of employees within Sika to comply with.

• Provided a wide variety of day-to-day employment advice with a domestic and international focus under a retainer with multiple global technology companies, including redundancy procedures, disciplinary proceedings, and settlement agreements.

• Advised multinational consumer healthcare company on data protection compliance from an employment perspective for over 30 jurisdictions.

• Acted for a healthcare client in responding to a claim from a former employee for breach of discrimination legislation in the Employment Tribunal.

• Law Society of England & Wales - Member
• Employment Lawyers Association - Member