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Chris Bracebridge specialises in advising employers on global mobility and international employment issues, including the expatriation and dismissal of senior employees who work abroad or across borders. He heads and co-ordinates a team providing the employment, tax and immigration advice required in these complex situations.
Mr. Bracebridge’s domestic practice comprises contentious, commercial and advisory employment experience. He advises on the HR aspects of company and business acquisitions and disposals, and outsourcing transactions, defends financial institutions and other major employers in dismissal, discrimination, equal pay and whistle-blowing cases, and advises corporate clients on the full range of day-to-day employment issues, as well as data privacy and pensions matters.
Mr. Bracebridge was shortlisted for Assistant Solicitor of the Year 2009 by The Lawyer magazine. He has been seconded to two global financial institutions - a major US investment bank and a leading UK bank.
Mr. Bracebridge regularly trains and presents to clients and external organizations and writes articles for both the legal press and client publications. He has spoken at events and conferences in the UK and abroad on a range of issues such as global mobility, executive departures, redundancy, data protection and transfers of undertakings.
Representative Matters
- Structuring a senior executive’s cross-border tax and employment arrangements for a US/UK clean tech company.
- Advising a UK listed company in relation to expatriate dismissals in Asia.
- Structuring the UK/US/Danish cross-border tax and employment aspects of a senior executive appointment to a listed UK company.
- Advising a Danish corporate in relation to Irish dismissals.
- Structuring the cross-border tax and employment aspects of the transfer of a UK executive to an Indian entity for a US conglomerate.
- Counselling a US/Irish corporate in relation to US/UK dismissals.
- Advising a US/UK corporate regarding multi-million pound, multi-jurisdictional dismissal and employee benefit claims from a senior executive.
Honors and Rankings
- Legal 500 UK, Employment (2009)
- Shortlisted for “Assistant Solicitor of the Year 2009” by The Lawyer magazine
Pro Bono
- Advising a global charity in relation to expatriate contracts and policies.
- Advising numerous UK charities on employment and employee benefits issues.
- Nominated for LawWorks 2012 Pro Bono Award for Best Contribution by an Individual.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Employment Lawyers' Association of England and Wales
- European Employment Lawyers' Association
Publications and Speeches
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