Employment & Immigration Lawyers

Our specialist team of employment lawyers provides advice on employment and immigration law to a range of global clients, including banks, financial services businesses, companies and directors, as well as their onshore legal advisers.

Employment and immigration legal services

Our talented, experienced and solution driven teams in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and Mauritius are committed to delivering the highest possible level of client service and regularly work across these locations to provide expert multi-jurisdictional advice on offshore employment law and immigration matters.

With close ties to local governments, immigration and employment lawyers at Appleby are often consulted on, and help to share, new laws brought into force across the jurisdictions in which we operate.

Our team provide advice on the full spectrum of employment and immigration issues, including:

  • Contracts of employment
  • Data protection and GDPR
  • Discrimination
  • Disciplinaries and investigations
  • Employment incentives
  • Immigration
  • Pensions
  • Redundancy
  • Trade unions
  • Unfair dismissal

Why Appleby for offshore employment law

Our global presence enables our offshore employment solicitors and lawyers to provide timely and comprehensive legal advice at the times most critical to our clients. This high level of client service is underlined by a series of top tier rankings for the Group’s offshore employment teams in renowned legal directories such as Chambers and Partners, and The Legal 500. Indeed, recent praise for our employment lawyers within the directories saw Appleby described as a “standout employment group”.

Appleby has a standout employment group that undertakes a broad range of work including advice on immigration. It offers considerable expertise in contentious matters, and regularly represents both employees and employers in tribunals and courts” – Chambers UK (2023)

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  • Isle of Man (1)
  • Bermuda (1)
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Employee departures are an inevitable part of running a business, but the way they are managed can have significant legal, financial and operational consequences. In Bermuda, employers who approach terminations without adequate preparation may expose themselves to unnecessary disputes, regulatory issues, and reputational harm. Whether an employee is being dismissed for performance reasons, made redundant or departing as part of a negotiated exit, by recognizing the following common mistakes and taking a proactive approach, organizations can manage departures more effectively and reduce risk.

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Back to Basics- Disputes Series

COMPELLING THE INNOCENT: NORWICH PHARMACAL RELIEF IN THE BVI Norwich Pharmacal relief can be a key, strategic tool to assist litigants with early-stage investigation where a BVI company is involved in “wrongdoing” that is the subject of ongoing or prospective litigation either in the BVI or abroad.  A Norwich Pharmacal disclosure order in the BVI is typically made against the registered agent of a “wrongdoer” BVI company, unbeknownst to the company itself, compelling the registered agent to provide information and documentation on the company’s directors, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners and/or assets.  It is a flexible remedy but it typically enables an applicant party to obtain disclosure to identify the protagonists controlling the “wrongdoer” BVI company and details of its assets necessary in order to pursue their claim or to enforce and execute a judgment. Most frequently, relief is given in aid of foreign proceedings where it is needed to properly plead out a potential claim, to support eventual enforcement of a foreign judgment and/or to obtain or police an injunction.

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Arbitrating shareholders’ disputes and beyond – the Mauritian Supreme Court re-affirms its non-interventionist and pro-arbitration stance

On 08 May 2026, the Mauritian Supreme Court, sitting as the panel of Designated Judges appointed under the International Arbitration Act 2008 (IAA), delivered an important judgment in Intermediate Investment Holdings Ltd v Imevbore & Ors 2026 SCJ 186 (IIHL Case). The Supreme Court declined to award costs sought by the Respondents following the Applicant’s withdrawal of an application for an interim injunction.