APPROACH
Legal Navigator goes beyond legal advice. Legal Navigator provides an integrated approach by combining legal expertise with the strategic and practical challenges of dealing with complex employment relations.
Explaining and applying the legal rules of the game is usually the easy part. Legal Navigator goes the extra mile by also helping you to find your way to achieve the best outcome. Legal Navigator advises on long-term solutions that are workable for all stakeholders, rather than simply providing a legal answer that often only serves to further disrupt difficult dynamics in employment relations.
Legal Navigator can operate discreetly by providing legal and strategic advice behind the scenes, which often empowers parties to resolve complex and difficult situations themselves in a pleasant and sustainable way. Equally Legal Navigator can also jump in and seamlessly take the lead when necessary.
Below you can find more information on how Legal Navigator can support you.
SERVICES
Legal Navigator understands the significance of building strong, lasting relationships with corporate clients. By partnering with Legal Navigator, you can expect dedicated legal counsel tailored to your organization’s specific needs. As your trusted advisor, we offer proactive legal guidance to help you achieve your business objectives while mitigating employment-related liabilities.
Facing employment-related legal issues can be unsettling. Legal Navigator understands the importance of protecting your rights in the workplace. We will collaborate diligently with you to ensure you receive the necessary guidance and support to effectively navigate your employment law concerns.
In the fast-paced world of business, Legal Navigator understands that sometimes you need extra expertise to drive your projects forward. Seamlessly integrated with your team and delivering customised solutions tailored to your needs. Whether it’s reviewing or drafting HR documentation, setting up a works council, or assisting with restructurings or an acquisition, Legal Navigator is your trusted partner for short-term assignments, temporary replacements, or specific project support.
EXPERTISE
Facing employment-related legal issues can be unsettling. Legal Navigator understands the importance of protecting your rights in the workplace. We will collaborate diligently with you to ensure you receive the necessary guidance and support to effectively navigate your employment law concerns.
Succes stories
Is your collaboration within the partnership strained?
Gain insights into the underlying issues behind a dispute and receive advice on how to resolve it from a legal and strategic perspective in the best interests of the company.
Legal Navigator provides expert legal guidance and support boards of directors and corporate leadership teams to foster effective leadership, transparency and accountability. Our expertise and services extend beyond traditional governance advice, encompassing support for executive contracts and compensation. We also provide guidance board diversity and inclusion, and on succession planning and board evaluation, helping to develop robust strategies for leadership continuity and performance optimization.
Succes stories
Looking to improve your board’s effectiveness?
Discover the governance tools and strategies to improve executive contracts, foster diversity and inclusion, and allow for succession planning and performance optimization.
Legal Navigator offers comprehensive support throughout the entire executive employment lifecycle, from recruitment and contract negotiation to termination and settlement agreements. With a deep understanding of employment laws and industry best practices, we provide strategic counsel to ensure seamless transitions and mitigate risks associated with executive hires and dismissals.
Succes stories
Hiring a new executive?
The new journey starts with the first conversation. Make deliberate choices in terms and conditions you offer and learn how to reflect these in legal documents in plain language.
Navigating an executive firing?
Learn how careful preparation and execution not only ensures legal compliance but also allows the company to move on and the executive to leave as good ambassador.
Offered an executive role?
Gain comprehensive insights into your contractual terms safeguarding your interests today, and anticipate potential future scenarios to ensure continued protection.
Facing termination?
Gain a deep understanding of your rights and uncover strategies to transform your termination into an opportunity, equipping you with the confidence and flexibility to chart a new path forward.
Legal Navigator offers comprehensive support throughout the entire M&A process, conducting thorough due diligence to assess employment-related liabilities, compliance issues, and potential exposure to SPA negotiations as well as support on post-merger integration. We provide for all employment-related matters strategic guidance tailored to your specific needs, helping you maximize value and minimize legal complications in every transaction.
Succes stories
Preparing for M&A or due diligence?
Learn what employment measures and simple remedies can be taken to ensure a smooth M&A process, creating a win-win for all stakeholders and securing future success.
In today’s continuously evolving business landscape, organizational changes are inevitable. Legal Navigator offers expert counsel and support you to navigate the complexities of restructurings, ensuring compliance with employment laws, minimise legal risks and uphold the well-being of your employees. From developing strategic restructuring plans to a smooth and seamless execution, we guide you through every step of the process. Also if you face yourself redundancy, we are here to help you.
Succes stories
Reshaping your organisation?
Discover how to shape a restructuring process in an efficient manner tailored to the company’s needs and challenges securing the interests of all stakeholders, short-term and long(er)-term.
Navigating organizational changes?
Learn how organisational changes can be a catalyst for positive change, enabling your organization to remain competitive and agile while keeping your workforce happy and healthy.
Facing redundancy?
Gain comprehensive insights into your rights and explore avenues to leverage redundancy as an opportunity, empowering you with the freedom and confidence to move forward.
Legal Navigator offers expert counsel on navigating the intricate legal landscape of employee participation and co-determination, ensuring that your organization meets its legal obligations while promoting meaningful engagement and cooperation among all stakeholders. From advising on the establishment and powers of works councils to negotiating collective agreements, we support you build a fair and transparent work environment where both employers and employees thrive.
Succes stories
Setting up or streamlining employee participation?
Learn how employee participation can facilitate the decision-making and implementation of organisational changes, ensuring compliance and fostering satisfaction in the workplace.
Competitive and fair compensation structures are key in attracting, retaining, and motivating top talent. Whether you are a startup looking to incentivize key employees, a well-established corporation seeking to optimize your compensation strategy, or an employee offered equity, Legal Navigator offers comprehensive legal support. From counselling to design, implement and manage these schemes and grants, to support employees offered equity to make informed decisions and negotiate their terms.
Succes stories
Crafting competitive remuneration schemes?
Learn what innovative remuneration schemes attract and retain top talent, drive organizational success and foster a culture of success.
Legal Navigator offers expert counsel on navigating the Dutch employment landscape. From understanding Dutch employment laws and regulations to drafting employment contracts, employee policies, and navigating cultural considerations, we provide the legal expertise needed to build a strong and compliant workforce in the Netherlands.
Succes stories
Building a thriving workplace in the Netherlands?
Gain comprehensive insights into the Dutch employment landscape and explore how clarity in legal documents and policies can shape an inclusive workplace and foster the workplace culture.
BENEFITS
Better results
Legal Navigator does not just provide legal advice, but builds relationships with executives and gets to the root cause of complex situations to drive better outcomes. Legal Navigator comprehends the nuances and knows that your needs, desires, and challenges require a personal approach. Legal Navigator gives a personal touch, understands the undercurrents that can hinder positive business outcomes, and knows how to remove these to open up the optimal path forward.
Global and Multi-Disciplinary Reach
Beyond borders, the close-knit network of Legal Navigator spans Europe and beyond. Benefit also from the multi-disciplinary reach in adjoining disciplines such as corporate law, commercial law, tax law, and privacy law, ensuring a seamless and comprehensive perspective on your legal needs.
Unburden Your Legal Worries
Legal Navigator is here to unburden you from legal complexities. It provides unwavering support, expert advice, and effective resolution, ensuring you can focus on what matters most to you.
Flexible Guidance, Anytime, Anywhere
Legal Navigator recognises that legal concerns do not adhere to a schedule. Whether you seek guidance online or offline, through email, or over the phone, your Legal Navigator is readily available to assist you when and where needed.
Unburden Your Legal Worries
Legal Navigator is here to unburden you from legal complexities. It provides unwavering support, expert advice, and effective resolution, ensuring you can focus on what matters most to you.
Flexible Guidance, Anytime, Anywhere
Legal Navigator recognises that legal concerns do not adhere to a schedule. Whether you seek guidance online or offline, through email, or over the phone, your Legal Navigator is readily available to assist you when and where needed.
AboutLegalnavigator
Legal Navigator is led by Stéphanie Spoelder. Stéphanie brings over a decade of employment law experience honed at international top-tier law firms, showcasing a commitment to excellence. This experience is enriched by having been a partner at respected Dutch employment boutique firms.
Strategic sparring partner
As a senior employment lawyer and strategic sparring partner, Stéphanie has gained valuable insights into the dynamics, needs and challenges that companies and executives face and what approach works best. Stéphanie knows how to read a room and secures optimal outcomes time after time. She challenges clients with a beyond-the-box mindset, thrives in high-performance environments, and delivers top-tier legal services with a personal touch.
Personal & dedicated
Stéphanie has been involved in employment law all her professional life. Stéphanie’s passion is to personally navigate corporates and executives in complex employment situations. For that reason, after almost 20 years private practice she has decided to fully focus on her core expertise and passion. For Stéphanie this means the greatest joy, for you as client this means no fear for out-of-control fees or inefficient processes. If you contact Legal Navigator, you will get Stéphanie personally and fully dedicated to you and the matter that makes you reach out.
Let us navigateyour journeytogether
Choose Legal Navigator for a legal partner that goes beyond traditional services – providing not just legal advice, but a holistic understanding of your world and securing optimal solutions.