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Kathryn Rosen

Senior Associate

Kathryn is a Senior Associate in our Employment, Labor and Pensions Practice Group and specialises in employment law.

Kathryn is an experienced international labour and employment lawyer. Her practice is focused on building and developing bespoke global relationship structures for clients and delivering end-to-end solutions on global HR projects.

Kathryn often acts as a single point of contact for her clients on a global basis, working in partnership with the local Eversheds Sutherland lawyers to ensure her clients requirements are met and the standard of our advice and service is consistently high quality across the globe.

Kathryn advises on day to day and strategic international and UK employment law matters and leads multi-jurisdictional projects for global clients requiring an 'international expert' as their primary contact.

Kathryn has particular expertise in international work and is involved in multi-jurisdictional and cross border matters on a daily basis. She advises clients on the territorial application of local employment laws and how to manage the risk on employee engagement and termination. Kathryn's recent international experience includes advising on a tax driven intra-group reorganisation for a US Chemical Company, involving critical engagement with employee representatives across 8 European countries, advising a US Chemical Company on their COVID-19 response plan in over 34 countries, including developing the strategy for return to work and guidance on temperature checks, COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and global travel restrictions.

Kathryn undertook a six month international secondment to our Qatar office where she worked on various commercial and contentious matters.

Kathryn has delivered more than hundreds of complex multijurisdictional projects, covering
more than 110+ jurisdictions for global businesses.

Recent experience includes:

  • Advising a range of TMT clients on day to day employment issues on both international and UK
    employment law matters. She also regularly advises clients on employment contracts and policies, business reorganisations, settlement agreements, disciplinary and grievance procedures, performance management, sickness and absence management, TUPE, the employment aspects of corporate transactions and changing terms and conditions.
  • Advice on candidate, employee, supplier and customer background check surveys across 110+ countries.
  • Designing a survey on how a global TMT client can efficiently collect binding electronic employee signatures, assents and acknowledgements on a global basis via DocuSign, and maintain enforceable employee facingelectronic records in over 30 countries. 
  • Reviewing a global TMT client's new Global External Staff Policy regarding how it will engage and interact with External Staff (including employees of supplier companies doing business with the client) for compliance with local law in over 75+ jurisdictions. 
  • Scoping, pricing and leading on reviewing a global TMT client's template employment contracts across 28 countries. 
  • Advising on the personal criminal liability that a global client's employees may face in the course
    of performing their duties in 29 countries. 
  • Working on the due diligence and post completion tasks for the acquisition of a Middle-East
    based retail company, with more than 5000 employees, and a presence in at least 8 countries.
  • New Country Starter Packs: Providing key information about the employment environment in countries which a global client have targeted for expansion. 
  • Advising on the strategy, implementation, and employee communications for the
    restructure of a global business across EMEA (+20 countries). 
  • Advising on a global reorganisation exercise, involving the implementation of a new
    global standard for reporting lines, with a view to driving consistency through the ‘span of control’
    throughout the organisation i.e. the number of subordinates/direct reports for each supervisor. 
  • Strategic internal restructure - provided all advice regarding the ARD risks, information and consultation obligations, project plans, communications and counselling/support to Legal/HR during implementation.
  • Multi jurisdictional research regarding disciplinary procedures and processes in 30+ countries, including drafting strategic and operational considerations for a global chemical client on deciding
    to adopt a global disciplinary policy and advising on the potential alternatives to a global disciplinary policy.
  • Reviewing and amending offer letters, employment agreements and HR guidelines (guidance to HR on how to complete the template employment documentation) for legal compliance. This project also includes providing training to the relevant HR teams on the new employment templates via country specific webinar to local HR teams. 
  • Advising a US Chemical Company on their COVID-19 response plan in over 34 countries, including developing the strategy for return to work and guidance on temperature checks, COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and global travel restrictions.

 

BPP University - 2012-2013

Legal Practice Course – Distinction

University of Exeter - 2009- 2012

2.1 LLB

Kathryn Rosen

Senior Associate

Kathryn Rosen

Senior Associate

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