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Experienced Employment Contract Solicitors for Employers and Executives
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Our specialist employment contract lawyers are experienced in developing robust and legally compliant contracts of employment, service agreements and the full suite of HR policies to support your strategic objectives.
Contracts and policies form the foundations of an employment relationship — we ensure they’re effective and practical.
Well-written HR documentation should reflect your culture and values while providing clarity for all parties to reduce disputes and protect business interests.
We also provide sensitive and tailored contractual advice to directors, executives and professionals to enhance their career opportunities and protect their long-term interests.
Talk to our team by giving us a call on 0333 004 4488 or email us at hello@brabners.com or completing our contact form below.
Protecting your business from future risk
From our extensive experience, we know that having effective contracts, policies and procedures in place protects your business and provides clarity to colleagues on expectations and entitlements. This reduces issues from arising and the risk of costly and time-consuming legal disputes.
We work with businesses to establish provisions that will improve the protection of their business such as tailored probationary periods, specialist confidentiality provisions, specific restrictive covenants and bespoke intellectual property and data protection clauses.
Tailored contracts that reflect your business
We can help you to correctly define and document all your people relationships and provide you with bespoke documents which balance business protection with flexibility.
We create bespoke and accessible contracts that are tailored to your unique culture and look and feel like you too. We can adhere to your brand guidelines — from your tone of voice to the formatting and structure — to ensure you meet your legal obligations in a way that feels authentic to your culture.
Taking care of complex benefit arrangements
We specialise in handling complex benefit arrangements including long-term incentive plans (LTIPs) and short-term incentive plans (STIPs). We work in partnership with our corporate team to provide recommendations on how these benefits are included in contractual agreements.
When senior employees and executives are appointed or promoted, we’ll help you find the best way to record strategic objectives and employee loans and advise on any clawbacks should the parties part ways.
If you’re contemplating selling your business, we partner with our corporate law colleagues to ensure that employment contracts and other policies and procedures are legally compliant to facilitate a smooth sale and minimal renegotiation of the sale price due to non-compliant documentation discovered during the due diligence process.
We draft and audit employment-related documentation
This includes:
- Consultancy agreements.
- Director service agreements.
- Employment and worker contracts.
- Executive incentive arrangements.
- HR policies to promote your strategic objectives and transform your business, including:
- Anti-bribery and corruption.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
- Employee wellbeing.
- Modern slavery.
- Prevention of sexual harassment.
- Remote, hybrid and agile working.
- Reproductive health (including IVF and assisted conception, pregnancy loss, stillbirth and neonatal loss, maternity, paternity, adoption and menopause).
- Whistleblowing.
- Non-executive director agreements.
Expert contractual advice for senior executives
From negotiating proposed terms of employment to managing post-termination restrictions, we are experts in explaining the potential impact of contractual terms and advising on your options so you know where you stand.
At the start of a new employment relationship, it’s important to seek advice to fully understand the terms and obligations of a proposed employment contract so that you can plan for the future.
Our team advise on the terms, obligations and enforceability of employment contracts and service agreements so that you know what you’re signing up to. We can review contracts before you sign to spot potential issues and protect your interests.
We specialise in negotiating executive contracts of employment and director service agreements, with a particular focus on complex benefit arrangements and restrictive covenants to minimise any future issues or restrictions.
Where necessary, in conjunction with our litigation colleagues, we can defend alleged claims of breached post-termination restrictive covenants threatened and pursued by ex-employers.
Services include:
- Negotiating new employment contracts or director services agreements.
- Providing advice in relation to restrictive covenants.
- Business immigration and Visa advice.
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