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Employment, incentives and pensions

We collaborate with you to achieve the best from your teams, offering pragmatic legal advice on a wide range of employment, executive and incentive compensation, and pensions challenges. Our global team provides support on your workplace challenges to help you attract and retain top talent, manage liabilities and risk and achieve your strategic goals.
Employment, incentives and pensions

Supporting you in enhancing the culture of your workplace and in managing liabilities and risk to drive business success

Your people are your most valuable asset, yet creating a productive and positive workplace can be challenging. At Freshfields, we provide both strategic and practical legal advice across the full spectrum of employment, executive and incentive compensation, and pensions issues – locally and internationally.  

We advise on complex HR legal projects, such as restructurings and headcount reductions, outsourcing, and coordinate the design and roll-out of global HR policies and incentive plans. We run workplace investigations, including those that are confidential and highly sensitive. We advise on innovative solutions to manage pensions risk.  

As part of our support on M&A deals, we advise on all employment, executive and incentive compensation and pensions related aspects, including notably information and consultation requirements in relation to employee representative bodies, employee transfer mechanics, retention bonuses and management of pension liabilities. We further guide your HR team to successfully integrate the acquired business into your organization.  

In a fast-changing employment, executive and incentive compensation, and pensions landscape, Freshfields’ delivers robust, tailored solutions to your most sensitive workplace challenges – so that you can focus on growing your business with confidence. 

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Gwen Senlanne

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Chambers Global 2026

Band 2 for Employment

Band 2 for Employee Benefits

Legal 500 Hong Kong 2026

Tier 4 ranking

Chambers France 2026

Band 2 for Employment

Chambers Germany 2026

Band 1 for Employment

Legal 500 2026

Band 4 for Employment, Asia

Legal 500 2025

Band 2 for Employment, France

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