Chelsea Gunning
Director
Chelsea Gunning has extensive experience in advising and litigating on the full spectrum of employment, benefits and business immigration matters. Her work includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, employee representation, transfer of undertaking, outsourcings and collective bargaining agreements.
Her further experience involves drafting and negotiating service agreement and employment documentation, managing collective and individual termination processes and advising in respect of occupational health and safety. Chelsea acts on behalf of domestic and international clients.
Chelsea is a recognised member of the Dutch employment community, and she regularly publishes articles on a variety of employment law aspects and teaches post-graduate courses at the Grotius Academy on European employment law, leave entitlements and transgressive behaviour in the workplace. Chelsea has consistently received recognition from Legal 500 as a Rising Star and Leading Associate in the past five years.
Chelsea is a board member at Bridges Network Foundation, a foundation committed to bridging the gap between first-generation law students and law students with a bicultural background, and the legal field in the Netherlands.
- Advising businesses in relation to a large-scale redundancy programme following a transfer of undertaking.
- Advising on employment-related issues within the context of mergers and acquisitions.
- Advising on the establishment of a works council for a pharmaceutical business.
- Advising a business operating in the food industry on the harmonisation of employment benefits post-acquisition.
- Advising a shipping business in relation to a cross-jurisdictional business reorganisation and subsequent redundancies.
- Drafting and negotiating employment provisions in outsourcing agreements, employment agreements, termination agreements and other employment-related documentation.
- Litigating on the enforceability of noncompete provisions.
Education
- The Grotius Academy, Post-graduate Specialisation Programme, cum laude, Employment Law, 2020
- Dutch Bar Association, Vocational Programme Legal Profession, 2019
- Erasmus University, LL.M., Employment Law, 2015
- Erasmus University, LL.B., Dutch Civil Law, 2014
Admissions
- Amsterdam, 2016
Memberships & Affiliations
- Board Member, Bridges Network Foundation
- Member, Vereniging Arbeidsrecht Advocaten Nederland (VAAN) and Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht (VvA)
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- German
- Recognised as a Leading Associate and key lawyer in Legal 500 2024 for Employment
- Recognised as a Rising Star and key lawyer in Legal 500 2023 for Employment
- Recognised as a Rising Star in Legal 500 2020-2022 for Employment
- Co-author, “Private equity en medezeggenschap: een modern verstandshuwelijk”, Tijdschrift ArbeidsRecht, 2024.
- Co-author, “Wet beloningsbeleid financiële ondernemingen”, SDU Arbeidrecht+, 2023.
- Co-author, “De zieke werknemer met vakantie: kosten noch moeite bespaard”, Tijdschrift ArbeidsRecht, 2022.
- Co-author, “De (on)houdbaarheid van de transitievergoeding in crisistijd”, Tijdschrift ArbeidsRecht, 2021.
- Co-author, “Vervaltermijnen en de exceptie van de redelijkheid en billijkheid: beter laat dan nooit?” Tijdschrift ArbeidsRecht, 2020.