Soo-Ja Schijf

Herstructurering & collectief ontslag / Medezeggenschapsrecht / Bestuurders / Outsourcing en TUPE projecten.

Soo-Ja heeft ruime ervaring in het optreden voor internationale bedrijven in een scala aan arbeids- en medezeggenschapszaken met betrekking tot Nederlandse en grensoverschrijdende kwesties. Hieronder vallen herstructurering, collectief ontslag, outsourcing en TUPE projecten en onderhandelingen met ondernemingsraden en vakbonden. Soo-Ja geeft ook strategisch advies over complexe internationale projecten en over de benoeming en het ontslag van bestuurders.

Soo-Ja is actief lid van de Vereniging van Arbeidsrecht, de International Bar Association en de European Employment Lawyers Association en geeft regelmatig arbeidsrecht trainingen aan bedrijfsjuristen, HR-teams en advocaten.

The Legal 500 EMEA 2019 - Europe Employment

Kennedy Van der Laan is highly rated for the range of HR-related advice it can offer in addition to the handling of contentious cases, especially in the finance and tech sectors. Eva Knipschild, Chris Nekeman and Soo-Ja Schijf are the senior partners who oversee work for clients such as Unisys, VodafoneZiggo and Rabobank. It advises Microsoft on all its employment matters including co-governance issues relating to restructures and reorganisations.

Brian Newman, LiveNation Entertainment 2018 - Employment & Labour Law

"Soo-Ja Schijf has successfully advised us on employment matters within our international business. She is extremely responsive in terms of timing and understands the international context of our entertainment business with different issues and challenges. I value her strong international focus and her pragmatic and very solution-focused approach. With Soo-Ja we are on the right track."

• Advising an international commercial real estate services and investment company on employment law matters including restructuring, dismissal cases and data protection matters.
• Representing a listed technology company about a high-profile non-compliance and integrity case involving the dismissal of a managing director and several employees.
• Advising an international software company on a corporate transaction, the harmonization process of employment conditions post-acquisition and the negotiations with the works council.
• Represented a listed Dutch bank in a large scale international outsourcing agreement with a global IT consulting services company, including the strategy planning, the negotiations and advising about the employment law consequences in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US.