Kingsley Napley—Emmanuelle Ries

Kingsley Napley LLP has announced that Emmanuelle Ries joins as a partner in the employment team. Emmanuelle will also be helping to expand and coordinate the firm’s services to French clients and UK clients with French interests.

Emmanuelle advises both employers and senior executive employees on English employment law. She specialises in employment issues relating to cross-border situations from recruitment and secondment arrangements to termination matters. She has significant experience of employment disputes including discrimination and whistleblowing cases, High Court litigation involving post-termination restrictions and litigation with multi-jurisdictional issues. 

Emmanuelle sits on the Advisory Council of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain and regularly advises UK clients on the employment aspects of setting up operations or acquiring a business in France and handling workforce and HR issues in France, as well as French companies requiring the equivalent when they launch and do business in the UK.

Emmanuelle joins from European law firm ebl miller rosenfalck where she was a partner from 2005 and worked since 2004. Earlier in her career she worked at Jones Day and Squire Sanders, following her training at Clifford Chance.

Kingsley Napley already enjoys an established network of contacts and professional advisors in France, and our wide range of expertise enables us to provide bi-lingual support for French speaking clients in all areas of their business and private lives. Emmanuelle will work closely with colleagues in our family law, private client, immigration, real estate, corporate & commercial, dispute resolution, medical negligence and criminal investigations teams to provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary service for French-speaking corporate and HNW clients.

Corinne Aldridge, Head of Kingsley Napley’s Employment practice, comments: 'We are delighted to welcome Emmanuelle. She has a wealth of experience that will fit really well with our practice and she will also take on an important new role in leading our work across the firm to French clients. Despite Brexit, the personal and commercial ties of our French clients with the UK and our British clients in France continue apace and we are often called upon to support them.'

Emmanuelle Ries says, 'I am thrilled to be joining Kingsley Napley’s employment department. I also see a real opportunity to expand Kingsley Napley’s work with French clients and to help its UK clients with French interests, I am looking forward immensely to my new role within a fantastic team as well as ensuring that Kingsley Napley can support French speaking clients in all areas of their business and private lives.'