Raoul works across all areas of employment law, including advisory, litigation and transactional support, with a particular focus on assisting international clients with their employment law challenges.
Raoul has significant employment tribunal litigation experience, as well as High Court employee competition matters. He is also experienced in day-to-day HR support, including dealing with employee grievances and consultation processes, terminations and drafting contracts and policies. Raoul acts for several “professional employer organisations” (or PEOs) and “employers of record” (or EORs), advising them on their UK and international employment compliance strategy and other issues. He has been invited to speak to the UK and European Employment Lawyers Associations about the employment law issues raised by these innovative sectors.
Raoul was a founding co-chair of ELA’s Race Equality Committee and leads our internal Pro Bono and CSR programme. He volunteers at the University House Legal Advice Centre’s employment law clinic.
Raoul is recognised as a leading practitioner in Chambers and Partners (2025) and as a key lawyer in in the Legal 500 (2025). He is also recognised as a key lawyer in the International Employment Lawyer’s IEL Elite (2024), an inaugural guide to the world’s best employment and labour law teams.
Raoul is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
“Raoul Parekh is a superstar. One of the best solicitors in employment law around. His meteoric rise to partnership is well-deserved.”
Legal 500, 2025
“You know that you can always count on Raoul to provide you with all you need and with all you didn’t know you need.”
Chambers and Partners, 2025