Adeola Olowude

Adeola has experience advising employers regarding state, federal and global employment laws, particularly in connection with cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, reorganizations and post-acquisition integration. She counsels employers on domestic and cross-border employment matters arising throughout the employment relationship, including helping clients expand into new jurisdictions, manage global workforces and terminate employment relationships. Adeola also advises on employment and separation agreements, restrictive covenants agreements, reductions in force and restructuring, wage and hour compliance matters and employment discrimination charges.

• Assisted McAfee Corporation with the completion of the sale of its Enterprise business to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group (STG) in a USD 4 billion transaction involving 44 countries and 65 legal entities.
• Advised Instacart in its acquisition of Caper.ai.
• Advised a global technology company on the sale of their document imaging business and the public spin-off of their automotive voice recognition business.
• Advised Meta in connection with the establishment of its online self-service leaves of absence tool to help US employees in determining which leave type is recommended for their particular situation. We were tasked with drafting disclosures with respect to the tool from an employment and privacy perspective.
• Advised Alphabet (Google) on its acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Alter.
• Advised US multinational corporations on employment law issues relating to COVID, including reductions in force, furloughs, remote work and the return to office, and vaccination policies.
• Advised US multinational corporations on expansion into new jurisdictions, including how best to engage workers whether it be direct employment, consultancy, or PEOs.
• Advised on employment matters in numerous US and cross-border transactions and post-acquisition integrations covering up to 30 jurisdictions and ranging in value from USD 5 million to USD 1.2 billion.

• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder Program, 2022

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of California, Labor and Employment Section