Kathryn Weaver's Linkedin Analytics

I head up Seyfarth’s regional employment practice. I have extensive experience of advising multinational employers in the Asia Pacific region on international employment law matters and act for a mixture of FTSE 100 companies, household-name brands, gig economy clients and start-ups. My clients span various sectors including technology, financial and professional services, retail and advertising. I advise on the full range of employment issues in Hong Kong, including complicated terminations, negotiated separation agreements, restrictive covenant disputes and litigation, defending claims in the labour tribunal and courts, discrimination issues, grievances and disciplinaries, performance issues, sickness absence, redundancies and restructuring, and data privacy. I also undertake a broad range of employment-related work across Asia Pacific, such as implementing partnership programmes, coordinating global employee handbook reviews and the drafting of template employment documents, overseeing litigation, coordinating multi-country data privacy projects and cross-border restructuring, and advising on senior ex-pat relocation packages. Having worked in-house at a number of client companies in the financial services, technology and retail sector whilst on secondment, I have a solid understanding of what a client is looking for in external counsel and make it a focus to provide practical, no-nonsense advice in a personable and timely manner and to ensure costs are managed effectively throughout a piece of work. I frequently deliver bespoke training to clients in the region and regularly draft articles and provide quotes on employment law topics for local media. I also regularly speak at and chair conferences in Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK on a wide range of employment law topics. I am dual-qualified in England & Wales and Hong Kong.