Adam Ray
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
Sydney,
Melbourne,
Australia
Adam is a Senior Associate in Herbert Smith Freehills’ national Employment team.
Adam has over 10 years’ experience in employment, incentives and industrial relations in Australia and the UK.
He advises clients on the employment and incentives aspects of M&A deals, executive remuneration issues, termination of employment and office (including Corporations Act compliance), outsourcing and transfer of business issues, and establishing and maintaining employee incentive and management equity plans. He also advises organisations on other employment law and industrial relations issues, and acts for employers in restraint disputes and other contentious matters.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- advising a leading global investor and asset manager on its corporate acquisitions and employee incentive plans
- acting for a leading global technology company on its record-breaking acquisition of a major microprocessor company
- advising Boards and management teams on executive exits and remuneration issues
- advising a major global resources company on industrial disputation, defending unfair dismissal claims, industrial and workforce strategy, enterprise bargaining and agreement interpretation, and other employment law and industrial relations matters
- advising major private equity firms and other organisations on the employment and incentives aspects of M&A transactions, and the establishment and maintenance of incentive plans
