With a team of dedicated industrial relations lawyers, we help many household name clients navigate trade union recognition requests, achieve change through collective bargaining, draft collective agreements, handle complex redundancies and TUPE issues, provide comprehensive advice to prevent disputes, and manage strikes if they occur.
Our specialist team is here to help you deliver practical solutions to complex industrial relations issues, whether your organisation faces small-scale industrial challenges or major national strikes. We are one of the very few law firms that routinely deal with the most complex industrial relations issues for a range of large, well-known clients and have obtained injunctions to stop several, high-profile national strikes for listed companies.
When collective workforce issues arise, our pragmatic advice puts you in control of your strategy, allowing you to act confidently and decisively from the outset. When you are in a high-pressure situation, we understand you need prompt, concise, and practical advice that aligns with your organisation's key goals. We will be there to guide you, drawing on our years of experience of successfully handling similar situations. Our expertise includes:
Securing injunctions to prevent two national Royal Mail strikes, including action that threatened to affect postal voting during the 2019 general election and acting for a FTSE100 client seeking an injunction on a novel legal point
Representing a range of clients in recognition disputes before the CAC. We have recently advised clients on this in the hospitality, logistics and retail sectors.
Advising multiple clients on the introduction of trade union access, statutory recognition changes, and other trade union related changes. We are advising household names across a range of sectors, including in hospitality, retail, manufacturing, technology and financial services, developing practical materials to help our clients address these changes.
Advising a large international employer in relation to various sensitive industrial relations issues, including the prospect of a 'leverage' PR campaign brought by the recognised trade union
Employment
Our Employment and Pensions group is one of the largest specialist employment teams in the country, with over 60 specialist employment and pensions lawyers nationally. Tax is an integrated part of the advice we provide.
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Immigration
Navigating immigration rules can be complex – whether employers are seeking to attract global talent or individuals are making significant decisions about their future. Our immigration experts provide clear, pragmatic guidance to help you navigate this fast evolving landscape with confidence.
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Pensions
Our pensions team has an established reputation for offering pragmatic advice to a range of private and public sector organisations. The field of pensions is constantly evolving, and we use our technical knowledge and commercial acumen to provide clear, solution-driven advice.
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Equal Pay
Our experienced employment team provides guidance and support to help you navigate organisational equal and gender pay issues.
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Data, Privacy and Cyber
Our Data, Privacy and Cyber team provides advice and support on advisory and contentious matters of all sizes and complexity.
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DAC Beachcroft has a true depth of technically superb, motivated and proactive lawyers who take a pragmatic and commercial approach to addressing risk.
Who we are
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
Insurance
DAC Beachcroft is recognised as a pre-eminent advisor to the insurance market, and we place a strong emphasis on the long-term relationships we build with you so that we can really add value to your business.
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Health and Social Care
DAC Beachcroft is regarded as market leaders in the provision of corporate, commercial and regulatory legal advice to healthcare providers.
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Real Estate
Our real estate lawyers support you through the full real estate development cycle, from acquisition to disposal. Working with clients in the private and public sectors, we deliver clear, practical advice that aligns with your commercial priorities and long‑term strategy.
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Financial Services
We regularly advise product designers and manufacturers, trade bodies, and retailers, distributors and venture capitalists looking to invest in the financial services sector.
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Technology
As long-standing and trusted advisers in the technology sector, we deliver pragmatic and innovative solutions that empower you to make informed decisions about how best to maximise your success.
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Industry Specialisms
We combine our in-depth sector knowledge with astute commercial awareness and global reach.
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