Speaker biographies

Denise Broussal is the co-managing partner of Baker & McKenzie SCP in Paris and is one of the Partners in its Employment group made up of 16 practitioners. Denise is active in all areas of French employment law and in particular issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, outsourcing and individual and collective dismissals.

Stefan Corbanie is an Employment Law Partner at Eversheds and is responsible for leading and developing Eversheds’ employment practice in Belgium. He has considerable experience working with foreign companies in Belgium involving cross-border operations and complex employment issues. His work focuses on collective bargaining and handling collective dismissals and company closures.

Edzard Clifton-Dey is a dually qualified (Anglo-German) employment lawyer in Eversheds’ Human Resources Practice Group. Edzard has specialised in employment and labour law for over ten years. Edzard has particular expertise in cross-border projects involving the co-ordination of advice on various employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions. He has recently co-ordinated the European HR restructuring and contract harmonisation process for a major US client across several European jurisdictions.

Frank Achilles is an employment Partner in Eversheds’ German office in Munich. He advises on all questions regarding individual and collective labour law including any employment litigation. His specialty is planning and advising on workforce restructuring projects as well as advising on the employment aspects of company mergers and acquisitions. He regularly works with UK and US clients.

Brechje Nollen heads the employment pensions and benefits practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam. She specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment law but also advises on a range of employee benefits, share schemes and pensions issues. She has particular experience in
employment and related aspects of acquisitions and takeovers, restructurings, executive remuneration and related contractual arrangements, severance packages for senior executives and employee consultation issues.

Aldo Calza is Partner and Location Head of the Employment, Pensions & Benefits Group at DLA Piper in Italy. Over the past 16 years, Aldo has advised industrial, commercial and financial entities on a broad range of legal matters related to human resources management, including corporate restructuring, mergers,
pensions, stock option plans, industrial relations, equal pay and employment disputes.

Daniel Cifuentes is a Partner at Bird & Bird’s Madrid office and provides advice to large multinational companies in all areas of labour and social security law, including advice in the execution and termination of agreements with senior executive managers, as well on contractual and remuneration issues (including the implementation of stock options plans) and on labour issues arising in all types of commercial transactions, analysing the different questions relating to the subrogation of companies.

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