Ross Alcock

Ross Alcock is an Executive at ENS in the Employment practice. His practice focuses on Employment Law, specialising in integrated employment solutions, administrative law, compensation and remuneration, and global mobility. He also specialises in sports law-related employment issues.

He has acted for private and public sector clients with regard to executive issues in the workplace, including drafting executive agreements (with a focus on restraints of trade (restrictive covenants), share incentives, performance bonus structures, protection of personal information as well as intellectual property and copyright protections). He has also handled senior executive exits by way of negotiation or formal disciplinary or performance enquiries.

Ross's experience includes drafting and enforcing or defending restraint of trade in the High Court and Labour Court, providing advice with regard to the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, providing advice with regard to insolvency, as well as in respect of outsourcing and secondary outsourcing scenarios. He has extensive experience providing advice in respect of large-scale and small-scale restructuring exercises (retrenchments) and drafting opinions on all facets of employment law, as well as all employment-related litigation and due diligence and employment law compliance audits.

He holds a BProc from the University of the Witwatersrand and an LLB from the University of South Africa, and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has also sat as an Acting Judge of the Labour Court of South Africa.

He is recognised by Chambers Global Guide for Employment in South Africa, by The Legal 500 EMEA in its Hall of Fame for Employment, by Who's Who Legal for Labour and Employment, and by Best Lawyers for Employee Benefits Law and Labour and Employment Law in South Africa.