Event: HR Director Breakfast briefing with Ian Hunter

Date:  29 February 2012

Location:  Quaglino's, 16 Bury Street, St. James's, London, SW1Y 6AJ

Audience:  HR Directors and senior HR Executives

How to attend:  

This event as with all Boyden events is by invitation only, but if you believe the topic and peer group if of interest please do ask if availability remains.

Please RSVP to Richard Hollister on richard@boyden.uk.com or by telephone +44(0)207 389 9776.

HR Director breakfast briefing with guest speaker, Ian Hunter, Partner at Bird & Bird. Topic - ‘Boardroom Bust-ups and How to Survive Them’

Invitation to HR Breakfast

‘Boardroom Bust-ups and How to Survive Them’

Boyden and Bird & Bird are proud to invite you to a breakfast session on ‘Boardroom Bust-ups and How to Survive Them’. The event will be held at Quaglino’s, London, on 29 February 2012. Present will be twenty HR Directors and senior HR executives.

A board-level departure can often be one of the most challenging situations a senior HR professional will encounter in his or her career.  The combination of strong personalities, large remuneration packages and risk of adverse publicity all combine to create potentially significant exposure for an organisation, and the Board will look to HR to keep a cool head and steer the company through this minefield.  This half-hour breakfast session will cover some of the key legal and practical considerations involved in achieving a successful separation, including:

•           what legal rights the departing executive has and how to calculate potential compensation;
•           how to gain the tactical advantage in negotiations;
•           controlling adverse publicity; and
•           post-termination damage limitation.     

Bird & Bird is an international commercial law firm which operates on the basis of an in-depth understanding of key industry sectors.

Ian Hunter is joint head of the Bird & Bird's International Employment Practice. He has extensive experience of advising on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious issues including the negotiation and termination of contracts of service for senior personnel, discrimination issues, collective and trade union matters, the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 and 2006 ("TUPE") and other employment aspects of corporate transactions and outsourcing programmes.

Ian writes regularly for the national press and is the author of the WHICH? guide on employment law. He appears regularly on BBC radio including "The Today Programme", "Five Live" and "Money Box Live". He also speaks regularly at a number of conferences on a range of employment law issues.

Boyden is a global leader in the executive search industry with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries.  Founded in 1946, Boyden specialises in high level executive search, interim management and human capital consulting across a broad spectrum of industries. We are delighted to co-host this event with Bird & Bird.