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Provided by Tim Leaver
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Tim is a Partner in the Herbert Smith Freehills London Employment team with over 25 years of experience. Tim helps clients with their most challenging employment and partnership matters across the full range of sectors, working alongside clients both domestically and on cross-border issues to deliver pragmatic and commercial solutions, often in time-critical, high-risk and strategically important situations.
Tim helps businesses to resolve both their employment/partnership-related contentious matters (to both execute and avoid litigation), and in other matters affecting their workforces such as strategic advisory matters, M&A, restructuring and protecting business interests.
Tim has guided clients through some of the largest domestic and cross-border M&A and takeover matters in recent years, dealing with employee-related issues throughout the world.
Career
Tim studied at the University of Oxford and graduated in 1998 with a first class honours (MA) in Law. He graduated from the College of Law with a "commendation" in the LPC, and joined Herbert Smith Freehills as a trainee shortly thereafter.
Professional Memberships
Tim is a member of the Employment Lawyers' Association and the Association of Partnership Practitioners.
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Partner Tim Leaver has experience advising large employers on transactional and contentious employment matters at Herbert Smith Freehills. He is proficient in discrimination claims and the SMCR. He also acts as a mental health mentor as part of the firm's diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Tim Leaver advises professional partnership firms on misconduct allegations, team moves, whistle-blowing claims and retirements. He has particular expertise in the financial services industry.
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"Tim is extremely reassuring to have on our side, especially for complex, sensitive and urgent matters."
"Tim is exceptionally skilled and adept at offering sensible and pragmatic advice."
"He has an abundance of in-depth employment law knowledge and experience which helps him to navigate complex situations thoughtfully and proactively."
"Tim is a pragmatic, highly intuitive legal adviser."
"When it comes to tactics, he is excellent."
"He is utterly delightful to work with. Tim is very knowledgeable, professional and a strong and confident lawyer."
"Tim is extremely reassuring to have on our side, especially for complex, sensitive and urgent matters."
"Tim is exceptionally skilled and adept at offering sensible and pragmatic advice."
"He has an abundance of in-depth employment law knowledge and experience which helps him to navigate complex situations thoughtfully and proactively."
"Tim is a pragmatic, highly intuitive legal adviser."
"When it comes to tactics, he is excellent."
"He is utterly delightful to work with. Tim is very knowledgeable, professional and a strong and confident lawyer."
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