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Richard Rowlands

Associate

London +44 20 7067 2210

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  • About

    Richard is an associate in the Employment and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Groups. He advises clients on complex/litigious HR-issues, global employment aspects of mergers & acquisitions and increasing cross-border regulatory employment law compliance for multinational companies, among other things.

    Richard has assisted some of the world's largest companies with overhauling their methods for engaging institutional and individual consultants, as well as designing key internal policies. Having spent six months on secondment at a large pharmaceutical client, Richard understands and is well equipped to deal with the problems that clients in highly regulated industries face.

    Richard is committed to pro bono work. He has worked on a wide variety of matters, including those relating to charity, environmental and immigration law.

    Richard is a co-founder and co-lead of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Book Club.

    Areas of Expertise

  • Practices and Industries
  • Representative Matters
    • Advising on the employment aspects of a worldwide corporate restructure of a large multinational.
    • Advising a healthcare technology company in anticipating claims for wrongful dismissal, automatic unfair dismissal, age discrimination and whistleblowing in the UK Employment Tribunal.
    • Advising on several complex multi-jurisdictional employment law surveys for a major corporation.
    • Involvement in various high profile cross-border disputes, including a European Court of Human Rights claim relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    Areas of Expertise

  • Credentials
    Education
    • The University of Law, L.P.C./M.Sc., 2021
        • Law, Business and Management
        • Distinction in all modules
    • The University of Law, G.D.L., 2019
        • Law First Scholarship
        • Commendation
    • King's College London, M.A., 2016
        • English: 1850 – Present
        • Distinction
    • University of Nottingham, B.A., 2015
        • Hons
        • English & American Literature
        • Year abroad at the University of Connecticut (2014)  (Special Distinction)
    Bar Admissions
    • Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
    Languages
    • English
    • Welsh
    Pro Bono
    • Acid attacks: for a charity, Richard helped lead and draft a multijurisdictional survey on laws and best practices relating to the regulation of acids across the world, with a view to strengthening laws so as to lessen the incidence of acid attacks.
    • Provided immigration advice through the organisation Kids in Need of Defense whilst representing multiple families in their UK leave to remain/citizenship applications.
    • Provided employment/tax advice to a newly-founded charitable organization.
    • Prepared a settlement agreement for a charitable organisation that wished to terminate the employment of a senior leader.
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • Employment Lawyers Association
    Previous Experience
    • Secondment to the in-house legal department of a multinational pharmaceutical company.

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