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Niranjanaa Ram

Associate
About
Niranjanaa is an employment and investigations lawyer with multi jurisdictional experience. She advises public and private sector employers, including multinational organisations, on complex employment and health and safety matters such as restructures, investigations, disciplinary processes, personal grievances and employment litigation. She has appeared before courts and tribunals in New Zealand and Singapore.

Her practice spans the full employment lifecycle, including employment documentation, performance management, terminations, union engagement and collective bargaining.

She regularly supports organisations through reorganisations and reductions in force, and advises on employment risks arising in corporate transactions.

Niranjanaa has assisted multinational clients on cross border workforce matters across Asia Pacific jurisdictions, including employee transfer arrangements and post transaction integration issues. She has also acted on employment disputes and investigation matters involving senior employees.
Areas of FocusEmployment
Professional QualificationsBarrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New ZealandSolicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Education
  • Monash University, Post Graduate Bridging Study, High Distinction
  • Singapore Management University, LLB (Hons), Magna Cum Laude, 2019

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising multiple multinational clients on global restructures and redundancies in New Zealand
  • Advising multiple multinational organisations and other large entities on changes to employment law, including dismissal thresholds and the misclassification of independent contractors
  • Advised a global conglomerate based in Switzerland on an urgent application by a New Zealand union involving a conflict between New Zealand and international law*
  • Advised a Crown entity in high-profile litigation against a former employee before both the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court*
  • Assisted with high-profile cross-border due diligences from an employment perspective, including employee transfer processes associated with asset and share transfers

    *Denotes experience in previous firms
Languages
  • English
  • Tamil

Memberships and Affiliations

  • New Zealand Law Society
  • Law Institute of Victoria 

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