Stephanie Wright Pickett

Stephanie Wright Pickett, Paul Callegari | K&L Gates LLP

In the last edition of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel , we focused on the scope of the Acquired Rights Directive ("Directive") and the way it and similar local laws add additional layers of employment-related complexities to European business transactions. Under the Directive, all rights,...

Caroline Canavese, Noel Deans, Manfred Hack, Stephanie Wright Pickett | K&L Gates LLP

As any European investor will tell you, acquiring a business in the European Union is not always as straightforward as one might think. Selling and buying a business in the European Union often involves the automatic transfer of the seller's employees to the acquirer. Unlike the United States,...