Our award-winning Employment & Benefits Team, advise domestic, international and multinational companies, financial institutions, public sector bodies and charities on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law.

The team has a strong reputation for helping employers resolve employment disputes affecting both the individual and collective body of employees. Our lawyers understand the impact employment issues can have in the workplace and constantly deliver strategic advice to boards, authorities, regulators, senior management and HR teams for the swift and cost-effective resolution of such matters. 

Strategic advice often includes representing our clients during alternative dispute resolution scenarios, for example mediation or conciliation, but also robustly protecting their interests before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts including urgent High Court injunctions. 

Commercial awareness always plays a key role in our advice to clients, particularly given the extensive experience our employment lawyers have working in commercial transactions, whether carrying out due diligence or guiding constructive solutions to employment related roadblocks that arise for buyers and sellers.

Other cross-department collaboration includes implementing share incentive schemes with our Corporate Team, interpreting public sector employer obligations with our Public Sector Team and supporting our Energy, Property and Housing teams during transaction and advisory work. This approach ensures firm-wide service delivery is the cornerstone of the commitment we make to our clients.

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BNP Paribas

On a wide range of employment matters including on its employment contracts, HR policies, day to day employment issues and TUPE issues relating to business acquisitions

Ergo

On all its employment law requirements including on employment best practice, equality issues at recruitment stage, compliance issues that arise on a day to day basis and HR due diligence in relation to recent acquisitions

Leinster Rugby

On its day-to-day employment matters

Cartamundi

On the employment aspects of its acquisition of an Irish manufacturing business from Hasbro

A number of Institutes of Technology

On all employment law issues including fixed term contracts, protected disclosures, grievance and disciplinary issues

A number of senior executives

In relation to exit negotiations and severance payments

A large corporate client

In High Court proceedings against an employee to protect confidential and commercially sensitive information

Pobal

On a nationwide restructuring and integration process which concerned the transfer of projects funded by Pobal from Community Development Projects (CDPs) to Local Development Companies. The legal advice was provided to over 60 individual CDPs and included advice on the application of the Transfer of Undertaking Regulations

Responsiveness. Quality of research. The team acts as a sounding board and an expert part of the team.
Legal 500 2024
Beauchamps is a very well-managed and professional legal firm. They are informed and give relevant legal advice to our team and the wider company. Having worked with larger firms with a more expansive team structure, I believe I get better value and have a deeper relationship with partners focused on our business. I would have no hesitation in recommending the firm.
Legal 500 2024
Our business frequently requires urgent legal advice and so the speed of response is of paramount importance. Our contact in Beauchamps is always available to give advice and direction, which is always solid and has avoided issues escalated to the court system.
Legal 500 2024
Beauchamps has a noteworthy employment group working with domestic and international clients on contractual and advisory issues, including policy review, internal investigations and performance management.
Chambers & Partners 2024
The law firm is also active in employment disputes, advising employers and employees from regulated industries such as professional services and the public sector.
Chambers & Partners 2024
The team acts in litigation and settlement proceedings relating to unfair dismissals, redundancy negotiations and disciplinary processes, and also advises on protected disclosures.
Chambers & Partners 2024
The team is well rounded with excellent knowledge and expertise.
Legal 500 2023
The team has a breadth of expertise, particularly in resolving complex organisational disputes in public and private sectors. The team brings this wide-ranging experience to each mandate and is most effective in resolving issues at an early stage.
Legal 500 2023
The practice has a very strong service ethic which is evident at all levels within the practice. They also ensure that there is at least a second staff member familiar with an issue/case to support the client if a key member is not available.
Legal 500 2023
Beauchamps LLP’s team deliver several key requirements, including being reliable and accessibility. They are very quick to respond to the requests for assistance and are trustworthy.
Legal 500 2023
Beauchamps is very responsive and timely. They rise to the challenge in complex matters.
Chambers & Partners 2023
They provide good, strong, clear advice without delay.
Chambers & Partners 2023
The Beauchamps team are responsive, knowledgeable and use their expertise to provide practical solutions
Legal 500 2022
Practical, solution driven. Very attuned to client’s needs.
Legal 500 2022
Very responsive & solution focused.
Legal 500 2022
There is an acute awareness of the commercial dimension across a range of situations.
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022
We found Beauchamps to be very strong at understanding our organisational culture and supporting our business aims with their legal expertise. Occasionally one finds a legal practice which maintains a distance from the client in business terms.
Legal 500 2021
Their flexibility and professionalism stand out. They are always extremely professional to deal with at a level beyond my experience with other legal firms I have dealt with. They are always available and very good at meeting difficult deadlines.
Legal 500 2021
Partner support across all advice. High level of due diligence together with maximum care and attention to our requirements, which were prioritised by Beauchamps across all advice given.
Legal 500 2021
A full-service firm and very responsive to client needs. Partner support on all matters. Concise and well constructed advice provided at all times.
Legal 500 2021
Very responsive, take time to develop a relationship with the client and get to know our business and issues.
Legal 500 2021
Another source is satisfied with the team's "sound, knowledgeable and measured advice.
Chambers & Partners 2021
Always very helpful, timely in their responses and practical in their advice.
Chambers & Partners 2021
Beauchamps provides an excellent service and outstanding expertise
Chambers & Partners 2020
The level of responsiveness is excellent and the lawyers have a very good understanding of our business.
Legal 500 2020
This team has strong technical expertise and is led by a strong partner, Sandra Masterson Power, who is professional, efficient, and technically very strong.
Legal 500 2020
We use Beauchamps across a number of sectors, primarily property and employment law. The expertise and knowledge available across these disciplines is of the highest quality. In particular Beauchamps consistently ensure that the appropriate core professionals are available to us and consequently have built up a knowledge base and understanding of our business that ensures a practical approach to the commercial realities that pertain while supporting this with the appropriate legal expertise.
Legal 500 2020
The team is dedicated to provide a quick and early response at all times. The advice from the Employment team has been authoritative, easy to understand and therefore disseminate. The case management has always been top-notch with no detail overlooked. Keeping us regularly and fully updated has avoided any surprises or misunderstanding as we have occasionally experienced elsewhere.
Legal 500 2020
Always available to offer professional expert advice. The company is exceptionally thorough and dedicated to their clients.
Legal 500 2020
The team at Beauchamps is wonderful to work with. They make you feel like you are their only client and concern when you know they have many clients they are working with. They treat your employment inquiries or concerns with the upmost confidentiality and explain processes, procedures and Irish law in easy to understand steps. For our company not being located in Ireland, they would take the time to have phone calls and follow-up with neat outlines notes and templates we may need for our own processes. They are extremely cordial and pleasure to work with.
Legal 500 2020
The team is very knowledgeable about the subject matter, provides detailed and in-depth analysis and recommends practical solutions.
Chambers & Partners 2019
Beauchamps have built a good understanding of our business, our culture, the personalities in our organisation, and are therefore in a position to provide effective advice in a timely manner.
Chambers & Partners 2018
Everything was explained and we were fully informed.
Chambers & Partners 2018
Beauchamps have always been very quick, clear and easy to use.
Chambers Europe 2017
'Excellent standard of work' produced by the employment department, adding that it is a 'very efficient and responsive service'.
Chambers Europe 2017
Always accessible. When you need advice on the spot, the lawyers are on hand and more than obliging to meet at the drop of a hat.
Chambers & Partners 2016
Dermot Casserly “has got us through some challenging situations. He can clearly understand the risks and explains how to overcome them at a level we are comfortable with.
Chambers Europe 2015
The team talks you through the business issues and gives you real options - it lays out the commercial risks and gives you its point of view.
Chambers Europe 2014
Within budget, on time, and very competent.
Legal 500 2014
Dermot Casserly “has got us through some challenging situations. He can clearly understand the risks and explains how to overcome them at a level we are comfortable with.
Chambers Europe 2015
The team talks you through the business issues and gives you real options - it lays out the commercial risks and gives you its point of view.
Chambers Europe 2014
Within budget, on time, and very competent.
Legal 500 2014