Julia has extensive experience advising multinational clients on employee transfers and integration projects arising from mergers, acquisitions and amalgamations. In addition, she regularly advises corporate and senior C-suite level clients on all aspects of the employment cycle, from hiring, internal investigations, disciplinary and grievance issues to termination. Drawing from her litigation background, she has had the added advantage of being able to advise clients on contentious employment issues such as disputes on enforceability of restrictive covenants.
Julia also has significant experience advising clients on employment issues arising from their regional offices in Asia, aligning their internal processes with global strategies and adapting them for compliance with the diverse laws in the region. In addition, Julia has developed a highly successful immigration practice assisting multinational corporates in global mobility issues faced when moving their staff within the region.
Clients have praised Julia as being “very thorough and an expert in the field of employment law” (Chambers Asia Pacific 2020), “excellent, and the fact that she covers all of Asia is of tremendous value; she is always available and provides brilliant advice” (Chambers Asia Pacific 2021).
She is also recognized by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and is described as being “confident in her advice and able to explain it very clearly or ask the right questions in order to get the information she needs in order to provide the advice required. She is collaborative and always seeks to understand the root of the problem.” Julia is passionate about all aspects of employment practice and particularly enjoys delivering training for clients, designing bespoke programs to equip their internal HR teams and raising the level of HR engagement.
