Kathleen Healy

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kathleen.healy@freshfields.com

Practice Areas

Kathleen is the Head of our London People & Reward practice and also co-leads the firm’s People & Reward practice in Asia. Over her many years as a partner Kathleen has built her practice around assisting multi-national clients with the most complex and often sensitive mandates, often helping navigate employment and industrial relations issues across multiple jurisdictions. In recent years Kathleen has focused increasingly on developing the team’s contentious practice, in particular managing the investigation of multi-layered whistleblowing complaints and advising on confidential discrimination claims and other sensitive disputes. A particular focus in recent years has been providing advice on #MeToo-related matters.

On the transactional side, Kathleen has worked on a variety of international mandates involving the co-ordination and provision of advice across many jurisdictions. She has detailed experience of helping clients navigate the employment and industrial relations issues arising on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings and on developing and implementing innovative incentives and remuneration arrangements.

Kathleen’s teams also co-ordinates and executes a wide range of HR projects, including global policy and contract reviews.

From 2019 to 2021 Kathleen was the firm’s Global People Partner. In that role she supported the firm through the full range of people challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Kathleen is passionate about her pro-bono work and has a wide range of pro-bono clients, including GOSH and Save the Children. She is a mentor for the firm’s Stephen Laurence programme and has recently worked with the Firm’s Enabled network to help launch its Neurodiversity Working Group.