Trevor Gibson

Work Highlights

Previously an equity partner for ten years at Wragge & Co/Wragge Lawrence Graham (now Gowling WLG) where he was ranked Band 2 in the legal directories, Trevor has over the years acted as Lead Partner on clients ranging from Goldman Sachs, Barclays Bank and HSBC to Coca-Cola, IBM and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Ltd. After a career as a United Nations Negotiator he qualified as a barrister in 1999 and, after working as in-house Counsel at Wragge & Co for 5 years, he qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and became an equity partner the same year. He retired from that partnership in 2015 to tick off a number of bucket list issues, including making a film, “Scream For Me Sarajevo” which won film festivals across the world and was released globally in 2018 to significant critical acclaim. On conclusion of those projects, he returned to private practice as a sole practitioner and, as that practice grew, set up Heminsley partnership in 2018. During 2019, he gave TEDx Talks in Croatia and Bosnia on the achievement of “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” and on “Unconscious Bias and Manipulation” respectively.

Described variously by clients as ‘one of the finest employment lawyers I have ever worked with’, ’very outcome focused,’ and ‘unflappable’, he is someone who ‘brings atypical skills to the table’ with ‘brilliant results’. Clients say he is ‘a very strong negotiator and gains the respect of boards and senior executives’.

In addition to his own case load which tends to involve advice on particularly complex and board level issues as well as internal and regulatory investigations, as Senior Partner in Heminsley, Trevor regularly provides both strategic input and second partner reviews on more complicated matters being dealt with by other partners in Heminsley.