CCS Prospectus RM6179 - June 2023

BURGES SALMON LLP Health

BURGES SALMON LLP Health and Safety How we can help you Our health and safety lawyers understand that our clients need a focused and effective response to health and safety law issues and regulatory and manslaughter investigations, often in urgent circumstances. We combine key sector insight and legal expertise, working closely with our energy, construction, transport, real estate and environment teams to deliver the right solutions to our clients. Our health and safety lawyers have proven expertise in UK and EU safety frameworks, advising on investigations; improvement and prohibition notices; prosecutions including corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter; inquests and related civil claims. Our clients include leading listed and international companies operating in the UK, land and property owners, energy providers and high-hazard and COMAH industries. Our expertise includes: • Regulatory action and investigations by the police, safety regulators, Office of Road and Rail, Office for Nuclear Regulation and Maritime and Coastal Agency, local authorities and fire and rescue service authorities • Incident and emergency response • Inquests and inquiries • Compliance, policy and governance. Case studies Utilities company Advising in connection with a high profile multi-fatality incident at its operational site. We were instructed within hours of the incident and advised on the company’s immediate response. We continue to advise on the on-going investigations by the Police and HSE. Tram operating company Providing advice following the multi-fatality incident at Sandilands in Croydon. We have advised our client on the third party investigations including those conducted by RAIB, BTP and ORR as well as at the 10 week inquest held in mid-2021. The issues raised in those investigations include our client’s approach to identifying low frequency high consequence events. Grenfell Tower Inquiry Acting for one of the core Participants to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry in relation to the collation, review, and analysis of evidence for submission to the Inquiry. Ministry of Defence Providing support in the drafting and development of a suite of health & safety clauses and related reporting templates for a key contract for a design and build project relating to one of the UK’s largest defence programmes. This was a nationally important non-contentious matter involving a highly collaborative approach drawing on expertise from lawyers in our Defence, Nuclear, and Health & Safety teams. Train operating company Providing advice following the death of one of its employees from COVID-19 and the subsequent internal and Office of Road and Rail investigations and currently advising on participation in an inquest. The Coroner is considering questions of causation before deciding whether to proceed to the next stage of the Inquest. Back to contents Back to contents 40

BURGES SALMON LLP Immigration How we can help you Our long-standing business immigration practice advises many of the UK’s best known employers, as well as overseas businesses, on the immigration and employment aspects of recruiting and employing overseas nationals in the UK. We also advise on right to work checks. We also offer business immigration advice outside the UK through our Preferred Firm network. Recognising our expertise in this area, we maintain immigration ‘How to’ guides for the UK’s leading online HR resource, XpertHR, and a number of practice notes on leading online legal know-how service, Practical Law. Our business immigration team works closely with our personal immigration team who advise high net worth individuals and their families on the UK tax and immigration implications of moving to the UK. Our expertise includes: • Recruitment and employment of overseas nationals in the UK including preprocess planning • Right to work checks and the prevention of employing illegal workers including immigration audits • Planning of immigration strategy • Obtaining and maintaining sponsor licences (including for first time sponsors) • Compliance with ongoing sponsor duties • Supporting applications for immigration permission (including Skilled Worker visas) for applicants and their family members • Procedures and policies to ensure compliance with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requirements • Immigration and employment issues involving overseas nationals throughout the employment lifecycle • Dealing with sanctions imposed by UKVI for immigration breaches • Advising on the immigration implications of corporate transactions and outsourcing arrangements Case studies Large national retailer Providing a full business immigration service to ensure that the business, which has many thousands of employees, was ready for the new immigration regime post Brexit transition period (including strategic advice on recruitment compliance). Global data group Advising on all business immigration issues in the UK including strategic advice on employing overseas nationals, sponsor’s compliance, Skilled Worker applications, indefinite leave to remain applications and day-to-day advice. Global insurance company Advising on short-term business travel to and from the UK. Green energy company Advising on the recruitment and sponsorship of migrants under the Skilled Worker route, including eligibility requirements, practical steps to be taken, right to work checks and sponsorship duties. Government body Advising on reporting duties relating to the TUPE transfer of migrants into the organisation. Global defence company Advising on recruiting employees under the Skilled Worker route. Government body Providing on-going immigration advice (including in respect of the sponsorship process under the Skilled Worker, Government Authorised Exchange and Global Talent routes). Back to contents Back to contents 41