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Richard Rowlands

Richard is an associate in the Employment and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Groups. He advises clients on complex/litigious HR-issues, global employment aspects of mergers & acquisitions and increasing cross-border regulatory employment law compliance for multinational companies, among other things.

Richard has assisted some of the world's largest companies with overhauling their methods for engaging institutional and individual consultants, as well as designing key internal policies. Having spent six months on secondment at a large pharmaceutical client, Richard understands and is well equipped to deal with the problems that clients in highly regulated industries face.

Richard is committed to pro bono work. He has worked on a wide variety of matters, including those relating to charity, environmental and immigration law.

Richard is a co-founder and co-lead of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Book Club.

On December 18, 2025, the UK Government passed the Employment Rights Bill, which will now be referred to as the Employment Rights Act 2025 (the “Act“). This represents the “biggest upgrade in employment rights for a generation” and introduces a wide-ranging suite of reforms to be

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