Lionel Vuidard

Lionel Vuidard is a Partner and Head of the French Employment practice. Lionel Vuidard is recognised as one of the best employment lawyers in the French Employment market. He is known as a proactive attorney providing clients with hands-on, pragmatic advice and strong representation in litigation matters. Lionel Vuidard has been ranked for several years “Leading individual” by Legal 500 and “excellent” in the annual rankings published by Décideurs Juridiques.

Work highlights

Lionel Vuidard has broad expertise in advising French and multinational companies especially in connection with:

• Reorganisation, downsizing and business transfers
• Senior executives hiring / departure
• Remuneration and incentives
• Employment-related internal investigations
• Codes of ethics and whistleblowing policies
• Labour aspects of M&A transactions
• HR-related crisis management
• Employment-related litigation and dispute resolutions
• Collective labour agreements and industrial relations
• Health and safety risks in the workplace, harassment and discrimination
• Criminal risks in the workplace and implementation of delegation of powers
• ESG
• Geographic mobility, expatriation and secondments

In litigation matters, Lionel Vuidard represents companies before courts regarding sensitive employment disputes, such as high-profile individual cases, collective litigation, labour-related criminal litigation, and mass actions. Lionel Vuidard also has a strong experience in dispute resolution and the negotiation of settlement agreements.

Lionel Vuidard was admitted to the Paris Bar. He graduated from Paris Sorbonne University (Postgraduate Law Degree in Employment law), from Edinburgh University and from Sciences Po Paris (the leading French postgraduate institution in social sciences).

Lionel lectures regularly on Labour & Employment law at Paris Universities and at ESCP Business School. He has also been a featured speaker at various seminars in France, in the UK and in the U.S.