Having joined the firm’s people & reward practice group in Paris in 2001, Gwen became a partner at Freshfields six years later. He specialises in all employment and labour-related issues arising from M&As, company reorganisations, global investigations, and other sensitive Employment Law matters, including Litigation.
Freshfields senior partner Georgia Dawson commented: “I’m delighted to announce the appointment of Gwen Senlanne to lead our global people & reward team and look forward to supporting him in his strategic leadership of the practice. Our people & reward team is a market leader in addressing employment-issues across sectors, including advising on workplace modernization and cross-border transactions. Gwen brings significant experience to this role, which underlines the strong pool of talent we can draw upon at Freshfields for key leadership positions. In addition, I would like to acknowledge the contribution made by our incumbent head Boris Dzida, who played a leading role in driving the strategic growth of the practice.”
Freshfields partner Gwen Senlanne said: “I look forward to assuming the global leadership of the people & reward practice and continuing to work alongside my talented colleagues to address our clients’ most complex and sensitive employment and labour related issues. I would like to acknowledge Boris for his support in the transition and for his leadership of the practice during his tenure.”
Freshfields’ People & Reward team has delivered notable client advisory work in the past 12 months, including advising Google on its $5.4 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Mandiant Inc., Stanley Black and Decker on the worldwide sale of its 7,600 employee-electronic security and healthcare businesses to Securitas, and a market leading pharma company on people integration issues in 50+ jurisdictions following a significant acquisition.
