Overview
Moira is a counsel and the head of the Employment department of Linklaters Madrid since she joined in May 2018, after heading the labour department of another international law firm for over 20 years. She has over 30 years of experience and advises leading corporations and financial institutions, including their boards, on their more challenging and sensitive contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She is specialised on collective dismissals, negotiation of collective agreements, outsourcing, crisis management, equality regulations, restructuring of companies from a labour point of view, domestic and international insolvencies, incentive plans, pension schemes, digital nomads and remote working arrangements, and general employment advice.
She is an expert in the negotiation and termination of board members and top executive contracts, financial entities remuneration rules, equality and compliance including the social side of ESG, and on the labour issues associated with mergers and acquisitions.
Experience
- Several clients including, among others, Ceva Logistics, Gefco, FieldCore, Hydro, intu and CarNext: advising on their respective collective negotiation processes in the context of the implementation of furlough and restructuring schemes, collective conflicts as well as on judicial claims and other labour inspections.
- Several clients including, among others, Nortegas, Ardian, Q-Energy, UBS and Lacrem: advising on board related matters such as contractual arrangements, amendment of terms, remuneration related issues, internal policies, drafting of short and long-term incentive arrangements and transactional agreements, among many others.
- Several clients including, among others, General Mills, Blackline, Advanz Pharma, as well as some leading financial entities: advising on the contractual arrangements agreed with their employees and related to remote working, which allow them to work from remote location outside of corporate offices in the context of the approval of remote working regulations.
- Grupo Base: advising on all employment matters in the context of the sale to Affinitas Spain of the Spanish companies owning and operating Colegio Base and Colegio Internacional Ausiàs March.
- QSI, one of the world’s leading sports investment companies – and together with the International Padel Federation and the Professional Padel Association founder of Premier Padel – : advising on all employment matters in the context of the acquisition of the World Padel Tour business to Setpoint Events, owned by Damm.
- Banco Sabadell: advising on all employment matters in the context of the sale of a majority stake (80%) in its merchant acquiring business - through Paycomet, S.L.- to Nexi SpA together with the execution of a long-term partnership for the marketing of acquiring products and services which will allow Banco Sabadell to obtain additional charges, subject to the fulfilment of certain targets linked to the volume of products and services referred to by Banco Sabadell and the resulting commission income.
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