Sean Nesbitt – Partner

Head of Employment (UK)

Sean is Head of Taylor Wessing's employment and pensions group and supervises its immigration work.

He deals with all aspects of employment work, including executive employment and termination, commercial transactions and business transfers, often with an international element.

He has extensive experience of employment law in the context of commercial transactions, including outsourcings and international reorganisations.  He advises on collective redundancies and consultation, as well as individual employment disputes (particularly with an international context or complex benefits issues). 

He is recognised by Legal 500, Chambers and New City Media as an expert in the employment field and has written the chapter on Transfers of Undertakings in Sweet & Maxwell's Encyclopaedia of Employment Law.  He was a member of the sub-committee of the Employment Lawyers Association that was involved in consultations with the Department of Trade & Industry on the proposed reforms of TUPE in Summer 2005.  He is a graduate of Oxford University.

 

Taylor Wessing Practices

• Employment & Pensions
• Reconstruction & Corporate Recovery

Taylor Wessing Industries

• Insurance
• Media & Entertainment

Areas of Expertise

• Directors' duties
• Disputes and dispute avoidance
• Employee benefits
• Employment aspects of outsourcing
• Employment issues in the reconstruction and corporate recovery sector
• Employment termination
• Enforcement and disciplinary proceedings
• Immigration
• New working models and discrimination
• Outsourcing
• Restructuring and redundancies

Topical Issues

• Law at Work - October 2008
• International Employment Law Update - June 2008
• International Employment Law Update - April 2008
• Employment Breakfast Briefing: "I don't know where I end and you begin"
• Aging gracefully? Practice points for employers to consider to reduce risks of age discrimination
• No ifs, no butts: It's time to prepare for the smoking ban