People: Razia Begum, Associate

Razia Begum

Associate

London
Direct: +44 (0)20 7763 2551
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Ms. Begum is an associate in the firm of Seyfarth Shaw UK LLP, based in its London office. Her focus is on all areas of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Ms. Begum worked in one of the leading employment department's of a US law firm.

Ms. Begum advises on various contentious issues including unfair dismissal, breach of contract and various discrimination claims.

Ms. Begum non-contentious work includes advising and assisting with the employment aspects of multi-jurisdictional corporate transactions including share and asset sales, corporate restructurings and outsourcing. In particular, Ms. Begum has experience of advising on cross-border employment law issues arising from reorganizations and business transfers.

She also carries out a variety of contractual work including advising on and drafting employment contracts, compromise agreements, employee handbooks and policies. Her general advisory work involves employee disciplinary and grievance issues, redundancies, temporary workers, agency workers and data protection.

Our London office operates as Seyfarth Shaw (UK) LLP, an affiliate of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Ms. Begum is an associate in the firm of Seyfarth Shaw UK LLP, based in its London office. Her focus is on all areas of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Ms. Begum worked in one of the leading employment department's of a US law firm.

Ms. Begum advises on various contentious issues including unfair dismissal, breach of contract and various discrimination claims.

Ms. Begum non-contentious work includes advising and assisting with the employment aspects of multi-jurisdictional corporate transactions including share and asset sales, corporate restructurings and outsourcing. In particular, Ms. Begum has experience of advising on cross-border employment law issues arising from reorganizations and business transfers.

She also carries out a variety of contractual work including advising on and drafting employment contracts, compromise agreements, employee handbooks and policies. Her general advisory work involves employee disciplinary and grievance issues, redundancies, temporary workers, agency workers and data protection.

Our London office operates as Seyfarth Shaw (UK) LLP, an affiliate of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Education

  • LLB, King's College London, University of London
    First Class Honors

Affiliations

  • Member of Employment Lawyers Association

Representative Engagements

  • Advising a FTSE 100 company on various tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal and age discrimination.
  • Advising a global engineering business in relation to the acquisition of a business where employees were the key asset (TUPE transfer).
  • Advising a multinational business services company on the employment aspects of a share exchange and business asset sale.
  • Advising a US private equity company on the redundancy costs on a multijurisdictional acquisition of a company and total close down of the same establishments within the company. 
  •  Pan-European data protection advice for a number of multinationals.

Publications

  • "Subject Access Requests in Light of Case Law", Privacy Laws & Business (2010)
  • "Fines of up to £500,000 for Serious Data Protection Breaches", EuroWatch (2010)
  • "EU - Clarification of Data Controller and Data Processor under EU Privacy Directive - New Opinion of Article 29 Data Protection Working Party", EuroWatch (2010)