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Vanessa Li

Vanessa Li

Counsel
About

Vanessa Li advises employers on individual and collective labor relations issues. 

She is specialized in French employment law and she has in-depth knowledge of the technology, life-science, hospitality and entertainment sectors. With a comprehensive understanding of the specific challenges to each sector, Vanessa is known for her ability to identify effective strategies and anticipate emerging legal issues. She works with a number of large FrenchTech companies, particularly in the areas of e-mobility and e-commerce.

She advises clients on a wide range of employment law issues, including international employee mobility, incentive and salary design and employee profit-sharing, working scheduling and  top executive management. As a pragmatic and caring professional, Vanessa strives to provide practical legal solutions tailored to companies’ specific industries and challenges.

With particular expertise in collective labor relations, Vanessa helps companies implement social plans and manage the social consequences of complex M&A and restructuring operations. Her expertise extends to issues such as collective negotiations on RIF plans and collective performance agreements, information and consultation with employee representative bodies, and managing employee transfers. Vanessa's ability to anticipate social challenges and propose preventive measures, especially with regard to the integration of collective status, helps companies to carry out their restructurings in a transparent, respectfully and efficient manner.

Professional QualificationsAvocat admitted to the Paris Bar
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • German
Education
  • Catholic University of Lille, Postgraduate degree in Practice of Business Law
  • EDHEC Business School, Certificate of Business Management

Publications

  • Article Expertise du CSE dans les consultations récurrentes : dernières précisions de la Cour de cassation sur le droit d’accès aux informations et l’étendue de la mission de l’expert - Option Finance, December 2023
  • Article: Le droit d’accès aux informations et l’étendue de la mission de l’expert du CSE lors des consultations récurrentes, Option Droit & Affaires, October 2023
  • Et si...la dégradation sérieuse et durable de l'excédent brut d'exploitation est la vrai potion magique des difficultés économiques ?, 17 February 2023
  • Dismissals in France: Supreme Court confirms validity of ceiling amount for unfair dismissal damages, 20 July 2022
  • Lanceurs d'alerte en entreprise : entre l'ambition d'élargissement du statut et la nécessité d'un encadrement du régime général de protection, 20 June 2022
  • Newsletter Droit Social 2022
  • Licenciement pour inaptitude physique : dernières précisions de la Cour de cassation, 31 January 2022
  • Zoom sur le transfert partiel d’entreprise et la divisibilité du transfert des contrats de travail en application de l’article L. 1224-1 du Code du travail, 30 September 2021
  • Zoom sur le transfert partiel d’entreprise et la divisibilité du transfert des contrats de travail en application de l’article L. 1224-1 du Code du travail, 29 September 2021

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