Roselyn Sands

Founding Partner, RosylynSandsLaw

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Working at the intersection of Business, Human Resources, and Law, Roselyn is a highly experienced, pragmatic labor & employment lawyer respected by her peers and clients as one of the most proficient and insightful international HR lawyers.

Recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top labor and employment thought leader lawyers in France since 2016. She has also recognized by Best Lawyers France since 2019 in the field of Labor & Employment Law.

Roselyn exclusively devotes her time to advising and assisting clients in the design and implementation of their strategies globally from an HR legal perspective.

Roselyn began her career in the 1980s as a litigator in the United States (Florida/New York/California) specialized in international commercial and labor litigation at two prominent law firms Holland & Knight and Proskauer. In 1995, Roselyn moved to France, where she focussed exclusively on international labor & employment law matters for multi-national clients. After practicing at Salès, Vincent & Associés and Proskauer in Paris, Roselyn joined EYLaw in 2001 to develop its international labor & employment law practice.

Roselyn is a recognized insightful business advisor to multi-national clients worldwide, particularly US & French based. Her key areas of expertise are transformations, transactions, restructuring, and managing day-to-day client needs, such as works councils and union matters, harassment, discrimination, ESG, whistleblowing, and litigation, and particularly, leading cross border project teams globally.

Roselyn is passionate about creating & sustaining close working relationships with her clients, to help them build a better working world. She is a trusted business legal advisor to her clients. Globalist before her time. Beach, art and
music lover. Urbanite.

Roselyn is a Cuban-American living in Paris since 1995. She is admitted to the Bar in France, and New York, Florida, and California. Born in Cuba, raised in Miami Beach, Roselyn is fluent in Spanish, English, and French, and conversant and at ease in diverse cultural environments.

Global EY Labor & Employment Law Leader 2008-2019.
Global EY LEL Markets Leader 2019-2021.
Founder RoselynSandsLaw 2020 - advisor to EYLaw France and international clients.

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