Restructuring Your Workforce

Restructuring a business requires careful planning. We use our depth of knowledge and experience to provide reliable and pragmatic guidance, ensuring a seamless process for both employers and employees.

Keeping your objectives in mind, we offer strategic support, helping you to navigate one of the most difficult elements of owning or managing a business.

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Support when you need it most

If your business is struggling or needs to change to maintain a competitive edge, a restructure could be the logical solution.

Our specialist team regularly provide clients with commercial advice to successfully navigate the issues they are facing and ensure the business will succeed. If a redundancy process is needed, we assist employers, providing tailored redundancy packs including step by step guides, timelines and communications for employees. If TUPE applies, we ensure that clients are aware of their obligations and, if unions are involved, we can provide the specialist support needed to negotiate.

Our expertise

As part of a full-service firm, our services are comprehensive, supporting on all potential aspects of a business restructure. Working with our corporate law colleagues, we have assisted on hundreds of transactions including mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments.

Our specialist employment lawyers regularly handle and advise employers on workforce issues across multiple jurisdictions and support with TUPE transfers. Reshaping and structuring a workforce is a delicate process and our team is adept at supporting both individual and large-scale redundancies.

And if the situation appears to be irretrievable, we work alongside our insolvency colleagues to manage the insolvency process, supporting the administrators throughout.

Recognition of our work

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Richard is an outstanding lawyer. He quickly gets to the core issues, understands the client’s priorities and has a pragmatic approach to solving the issues and negotiating exceptional deals.

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Rachel is a brilliant employment lawyer, approachable and knowledgeable, and she gives in-depth advice with exactly the right amount of detail.

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Peter has provided first-class support regarding complex HR matters. Excellent quality of advice and written work. He has become a highly valued and trusted business partner.

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Chris is very experienced and good at the work he does.

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Catherine has continually provided us with a very high level of service, advice and solutions.

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Andrea Thomas is pragmatic and willing to accept advice. I found her service to the client to be engaged and thorough.

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Chris Mayers is very experienced and seasoned. He provides meaningful, measured and wise counsel and his personable inclusive style provided very calm and invaluably reassuring to me.

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Adam Cotterill attention to detail made the experience very comfortable. His written and verbal communication when describing or explaining the legal terminology ensured I had a clear and concise understanding of each process. I would highly recommend him to any future clients requiring immigration law assistance.

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HCR initially assisted with a challenging Ancestral Immigration/Citizenship query. The individuals involved were able to thoroughly and extensively review historical policies and legislation. Their collaboration as a team (including me throughout the process) provided confidence for me to proceed (along with their continued support) with the UK Citizenship application.

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I can only commend Adam on the service he provided, his attention-to-detail, along with his professional yet personal nature made the experience very comfortable. His written and verbal communications when describing or explaining the legal terminology ensured I had a clear and concise understanding of each process.

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Elizabeth Swinburn has excellent legal knowledge, took time to understand our needs and objectives, knowledge of red flags for charities clients , responsive and good at managing expectations, reliable and a total pleasure to deal with.

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Rachel Roberts and Ellis Jessica Walby were exemplary; I would not hesitate to instruct them again, or recommend them to others.

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