- FOR EXECUTIVES
Protect your role, your reputation, and your exit.
When you sit at the top, employment issues hit differently. Your contract has restraints worth millions. Your equity vests over years. Your reputation moves with every deal.
We act for executives, board members and senior leaders facing complex employment matters including contract negotiation, equity disputes, workplace investigations, managed exits and the litigation that sometimes follows.
Senior employment matters need specialist employment lawyers.
At the executive level, the documents are longer, the consequences sharper, and the leverage easier to lose. A poorly drafted restraint can stop you taking the role you have been working toward for a decade. A badly negotiated exit can lock up your equity, your reference and your next job in a single afternoon.
When it comes to your career, we offer the perfect balance of specialty in employment law while still having the expertise in any other area of law your matter may touch. We know how HR runs investigations. We know how the Fair Work Commission decides what matters. We know how settlement deeds get drafted to look reasonable while taking everything you have. We act for senior people across financial services, professional services, technology, healthcare and government. Most of them found us through someone who had already used us.
You bring the situation. We bring the experience. Between us, we protect the position you have spent your career building.
Nine services for senior people in difficult positions.
Every executive matter we run starts in one of two places. You are negotiating into a role. Or you are working out how to leave one well. The nine services below cover the points where the work gets technical, the documents get dense, and a wrong word costs real money.
Find the one closest to your situation. If you are not sure, call us. Ten minutes on the phone is usually enough to tell you whether you have a matter worth running.
Before you sign the executive contract, we read it. We negotiate the package, the protections, and the terms that matter at your level including short-term incentives, equity, notice, garden leave and restraints. You sign once. We make sure it works for you.
When the relationship has run its course, we negotiate the exit on your terms. Most executive exits resolve quickly with the right early advice.
Executive redundancies are rarely just about the statutory minimum. We check your contract, your STI, your unvested equity, your notice period; and negotiate the package that actually reflects your role.
Why the first 48 hours decide what happens next.
Senior employment matters have hard deadlines and hidden levers. Most of them work against you the longer you wait.
You have 21 days from the date of dismissal to lodge an unfair dismissal application. Twenty-one days to gather the documents, find the evidence, work out whether you have a claim, and write it up properly. After that, the door closes.
A restraint period starts the day you walk out. Every week you spend deciding whether to challenge it is a week you cannot take the role that triggered it.
Unvested equity does not pause for negotiation. Stop work tomorrow and the unvested LTIs are gone, unless the deed of release pulls them forward. You have to ask for that before you sign. Not after.
Senior people who call us early get better outcomes. Not because we are smarter. Because the levers are still there to pull. By day twenty-one, most of them have closed.
You spent a career building this position.
Don't lose it in a fortnight.
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