Crowley Woodford is the head of our European employment practice
Crowley is a partner in the London office where he leads our European employment practice. He specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law with a particular emphasis on discrimination, employee disputes and workforce restructuring.
Crowley has extensive experience in cross-border employment issues, collective labour issues, redundancies and workforce restructuring, ARD/TUPE, corporate transactions, corporate governance matters, executive arrivals and departures, whistleblowing, discrimination claims, protecting confidential information, and enforcing and resisting post-termination restrictive covenants. Crowley is also an expert in leading complex internal investigations including within a regulatory environment.
Crowley is a member of the Japan Society of the UK. He has an extremely successful and established practice working with high-calibre Japanese clients on all UK employment issues and having spent a considerable amount of time living and working in Japan, he understands the needs of Japanese clients.
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