Settlement Agreement Solicitors
Our settlement agreement lawyers routinely advise senior executives and senior employees on employment disputes, exit strategies, severance packages, and settlement negotiations. Our employment solicitors seek to maximise all our clients' leaving packages. Opal Legal has been recognised as a Top 200 UK Law Firm.
Our Settlement Agreement Service
Our employment lawyers have extensive experience in advising employees, directors, and shareholders on their settlement agreements.
Our settlement agreement solicitors recognise that pragmatic and commercial advice provided in a timely manner is essential in order to resolve disputes and maximise professional and personal opportunities.
We also know when a robust approach can be most effective and are used to dealing with the largest employers, in 'without prejudice' discussions, to secure the best deal possible for our clients.
Opal Legal are often asked by large national law firms to act for senior executives because they know they can safely recommend our expertise and settlement agreement service.
Your dedicated settlement agreement solicitor can advise you on what a reasonable settlement agreement is in the context of your circumstances, and we can assist you in negotiating the terms of your exit package, including financial compensation and other benefits (share schemes, pension plans, bonuses, long term incentive arrangements, insurances), notice periods and timing of departure, garden leave, director resignations, announcements (including stock exchange announcements) and minimising post-termination limitations on future work.
We also always seek to secure full payment of our client's legal fees by the employer.
In addition, we have extensive experience in the use of settlement agreements in commercial transactions, particularly in relation to corporate restructures and business sales and purchases.
We can provide independent legal advice to executives quickly and effectively in these circumstances to ensure that commercial timescales are not jeopardised.
Why Choose Us to Be Your Settlement Agreement Solicitors?
Choose our settlement agreement solicitors based on our experience.
Recent examples of our work with settlement agreements include:
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Acting for various senior executives leaving a national retailer, negotiating substantial severance arrangements, including the protection of future bonus, loyalty and LTIP arrangements
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Assisting senior executives leaving an FTSE 100 company, including dealing with individuals seconded abroad with rights in foreign jurisdictions as well as in the UK and tax equalisation issues
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Negotiating a six-figure exit package for a senior employee against a household name company through without prejudice conversations and successfully securing termination packages for other employees from the same company in relation to a redundancy settlement agreement
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Advising a Finance Director leaving a listed PLC, securing favourable exit terms, and maintaining their reputation through carefully drafted announcements and references, including the required stock exchange announcement
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Advising senior executives on the scope of their restrictive covenants, options in relation to future employment and negotiating carve-outs from restrictive covenant obligations as part of exit arrangements
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Advising equity partners of international law firms, negotiating exit arrangements, and securing the best possible packages whilst protecting reputation
Why Work with Our Settlement Agreement Solicitors?
Our specialist team of employment solicitors is described in the independent Legal 500 directory as "excellent" and are highly recommended in the Legal 500.
Therefore, you can be assured that you will be dealing with some of the best employment solicitors in the country.
We are determined and robust on your behalf, but also easy to deal with and clear in our advice.
Our solicitors will fight your corner, but we understand that a common-sense approach is often required to find solutions that work for you in the context of your professional and personal circumstances.
In particular, our employment lawyers offer:
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City centre standards of employment law advice and service levels due to our policy of recruiting only the best specialist employment solicitors.
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Clear and straightforward UK employment law advice that is user-friendly, pragmatic, and commercial.
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Extensive experience in advising various employees, including senior executives, directors and partners with complex employment concerns.
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A credible team of employment law solicitors that are used to dealing with and providing legal representation against large employers and law firms on behalf of our clients.
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A partner-led service and a genuinely accessible team of experienced employment law solicitors due to our size, structure, and unique culture.
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Cost-effective support tailored to your unique employment issues and certainty on costs where you need it.
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