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Anna-Christina Chaves

Partner, Employment
France

Expertise

Anna-Christina has worked as a lawyer since 2001. She has developed a pragmatic employment law practice with a strong financial focus.

She advises major groups, SMEs, financial institutions and investment funds on their strategic operations (mergers, disposals, takeovers, LBOs, etc.) in terms of employment law audit and due diligence, management of HR integration processes (review of collective status, working hours, etc.) and implementation of management packages alongside corporate teams. She is also involved in restructuring projects (downsizing, PSE, carve-outs, etc.) or the implementation of alternative scenarios (RCC, APLD, PDV, GPEC, etc.).

Anna-Christina also assists her clients with remuneration issues and the implementation of schemes such as value-sharing bonuses, employee savings plans and employee share ownership. Anna-Christina also advises on matters relating to individual employment relations (discrimination and equal treatment, contractual termination, redundancies, settlements, foreign secondments, etc.) and litigation arising from URSSAF inspections and collective disputes.

Publications

Author of "L’abécédaire de la Loi Travail –Décryptage des mesures phare – Incidences pour les opérations M&A ", (Sept 2016).
Author of "L’abécédaire des ordonnances du 22 septembre 2017 – Little Big bang?", (Nov 2017).
Author of "La réforme du Code du travail de A à Z», (June 2018).

Languages

French (mother tongue)
English (Full professional competencies)
Spanish (Full professional competencies)
Portuguese (Full professional competencies)

Education

Bar exam -Certified Attorney at law registered with the Paris Bar
Post-graduated (DEA) in Employment and Social Security Law (Master in Law), together with French Magistere Degree
Preparatory Class (“Hypokhâgnes”) to the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Professional Memberships

Member of the Think Tank "Institut Montaigne" special group dedicated to the Uberization impacts (April 2019)
Teacher at HEAD (Hautes Etudes Appliqués du Droit), Anna-Christina is also administrator, spokesperson and expert in social law for the Concorde Foundation Think Tank and actively participates in the working group of the Montaigne Institute concerning the development of the 'Employment through digital platforms.