Handed a Settlement Agreement? Don’t Sign Yet.
Independent legal advice is required for a reason: the waiver is permanent. Reviewed within 48 hours, entirely by phone and email if you prefer — and in most cases your employer covers the cost.
Senior Exit? The Agreement Itself May Be the Negotiation.
Before taking advice on the document, ask whether the document should be better: notice, bonus, vesting timing, covenants, the reference, the announcement. Executive severance negotiation, conducted with discretion.
Executive Severance →Everything the Document Raises
Twelve honest guides — from the one-hour review to the six-figure negotiation, and the employer’s chair too.
Settlement Agreements in Ireland
What the document is, why independent advice exists, and how the 48-hour remote review works.
Independent Legal Advice
Exactly what the review covers, the employer-pays custom, and the process step by step.
Should I Sign?
The honest decision framework - what you’re giving up, what you’re getting, what’s negotiable.
Negotiating Your Agreement
What ordinary employees can realistically improve - and how to ask without blowing up the deal.
Executive Severance Negotiation
Six-figure exits: the levers, the dynamics, and why credible advice changes the employer’s maths.
Share Options, Bonuses & Your Exit
Earned vs discretionary, vesting cliffs, and why your termination date is a negotiation lever.
Redundancy & Settlement
The statutory floor, the ex gratia layer, and the leverage fair selection gives you.
The Anatomy of the Agreement
Clause by clause: the waiver, the carve-outs, and the clauses people under-read.
Without Prejudice Conversations
“Can we have a chat?” - what the phrases mean, and how to conduct yourself in the meeting.
References, Announcements & Reputation
The exit-optics page nobody writes - often worth more than money to a career.
For Employers
Drafting agreements that actually achieve finality - informed consent done properly.
Tax & Your Termination Package
Why tax treatment changes what an exit is worth - and the questions for your accountant, before signing.
The Waiver Is the Price. The First Draft Is Their Draft. The Deadline Is Softer Than It Looks.
Three truths before you sign: the agreement permanently surrenders real claims — that’s what the package buys; the document in your hand was written by the employer’s lawyers, for the employer’s protection, and it’s improvable more often than people assume; and the pressure to sign by Friday is usually negotiable — informed-consent law exists precisely because rushed waivers are unfair ones. One review makes the trade visible before it becomes irreversible.
How the 48-Hour Review Works
Email the agreement (and your contract, if you have it) today. We confirm the employer’s contribution position and the arrangement with you before any work begins — in most cases the contribution covers most or all of the cost. The advice call — phone or video, at a time that suits — walks the document clause by clause: what you’re waiving and its realistic value, what you’re getting, what’s missing, what’s negotiable, and the honest recommendation: sign, ask, or think again. Where negotiation is right, it’s handled or coached; where the deal is good, you’re told so plainly. The certificate and signing complete remotely. Two minutes on the Exit Package Review maps your situation before you even call.
Serving Clients Everywhere — Remotely
The Document Is in Your Inbox. The Deadline Is on the Calendar.
Send it today - reviewed within 48 hours, remote if you prefer, and in most cases the employer covers the cost. One call makes the trade visible before it becomes permanent.
Call 01 5827148