Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Olivier Kress is a partner at Flichy Grangé Avocats, a leading employment law firm.

Olivier's practice, in common with his partners, focuses exclusively on labour and employment issues. He advises companies and groups notably in the industry, services, technology and telecommunications sectors.

Together with a team of fluent English and Italian speakers, a large part of his advisory work is dedicated to international clients.

He specialises in advising on mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, carve-out and restructuring operations, collective redundancies, transfer of undertakings.

He also advises on individual relations, executive management, working time, collective bargaining, social security issues, health and safety, code of conduct and international mobility and immigration matters.

As part of his litigation practice, he represents his clients in high-risk collective or individual disputes before the civil and criminal courts.

He is an active member of the International Bar Association's employment and discrimination committees (IBA) and of the European Employment Law Association (EELA).

Olivier holds a Masters in Private and International Law and a postgraduate degree in Corporate Legal Advice (DJCE: Diplôme de Juriste-Conseil d'Entreprise) and is fluent in English and Italian.

Olivier Kress was called to the Paris Bar in 1996 and began his career with Barthélémy et Associés law firm. He then practised in Archibald Andersen and Baker & McKenzie law firms before joining Flichy Grangé Avocats in 2004.