Severance Agreement Review

A severance agreement has to do more than state a number. For the employer, the critical work is the release and waiver: a properly drafted, legally effective relinquishment of claims, so the departing employee cannot accept the severance and then pursue the company over the same separation. For the employee, the work is making sure the agreement honours genuine entitlements, statutory dues, accrued benefits, and earned variable pay, and does not quietly trade away rights that should not be on the table. Our team reads the agreement from whichever side you sit on and makes sure it does its job.

The clauses that decide the outcome are easy to underestimate. The scope of the release, the treatment of confidentiality and post-employment obligations, the handling of vested and unvested equity, the references and non-disparagement terms, the return of company property and data, and the tax treatment of the payout all shape whether the separation is truly final. Law Mahaguru attends to each, because a severance agreement that is silent on one of these leaves a door open that an aggrieved party will walk through.

What our clients value is that we treat severance as risk closure, not mere generosity. We have reviewed agreements that paid handsomely yet left the company fully exposed because the release was defective, and we have helped departing employees recover entitlements that an employer’s draft had conveniently omitted. The point of the document is finality, and we draft and review for finality.

We work with employers managing exits, restructurings, and sensitive terminations, and with executives and employees who have been handed an agreement and want to understand what they are signing away before they sign. Each receives a review that makes the trade explicit and the closure real.

A separation handled cleanly protects both sides and ends the relationship for good. Law Mahaguru makes sure your severance agreement achieves that. Send us the agreement, and we will make sure it delivers the clean break it promises.