Furat is a partner in the International HR Services group in London. She provides strategic and practical solutions for clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
She is based in London, but has an international focus, with extensive experience of supporting US multinationals with their employment law needs across EMEA and APAC. She leads the Tech & Comms group within the employment team and acts for some of the Firm's biggest tech clients.
Most recently, she has supported a number of these clients on cross-border reductions in force, offshoring and other complex multi-jurisdictional change management exercises such as a transition to, or away from, remote working. She has advised extensively on global policy and contract reviews, together with other compliance-related exercises for companies with employees in multiple countries.
In addition to the above, she also supports clients on the TUPE aspects of outsourcings and business transfers and advises on the full spectrum of day-to-day employment law issues including unfair dismissal, unlawful deductions from wages, whistleblowing and discrimination cases, as well as commission disputes.
Advising a broad range of tech clients, she has deep sector expertise and have spoken publicly on a number of key topics including employee activism, the legal challenges of implementing a global D&I strategy, managing your workforce in a time of economic uncertainty and the intersection between generative AI and employment law issues. She has also led and developed content for the Women in Tech powered by Bird & Bird initiative referred to above.