Tim has a wide range of experience spanning the whole Human Resources spectrum. He has significant experience advising on employment tribunal litigation, Board disputes, business protection actions, union and collective consultation issues and high value/sensitive discrimination matters.
Tim also has a wide range of commercial experience, including transactional, strategic and day to day Human Resources support. He has overseen a number of major reorganisation and redundancy projects in a number of different industry sectors.
Tim qualified as a pensions and employee incentives lawyer at Allen & Overy. He worked in the City between 1993 and 1997 and this experience gives him the ability to advise, in the round, on matters which overlap between employment and pensions disciplines.
Some notable highlights include:
- advising Orange telecommunications during two major restructuring programmes. This restructuring involved over 10,000 employees where terms and conditions were being changed as part of the Your Deal initiative
- advising Hochtief, Bovis, John Laing Infrastructure Services, Bristol City Council, London Borough of Hackney on major PPP/PFI projects
- advising Praxair on the integration of Sermatech into their UK business
- advising Zurich insurance on achieving business protection injunctions against director level ex-employees
- advising on some sensitive and high value whistleblowing claims including successfully defending a global engineering consultant over allegations of corruption in construction work on Palm Island in Dubai
- advising on numerous outsourcing programmes, including outsourcing print support, information technology, call centres and including advising on outsourcing to India
- advising one of the USA's largest film and television studios on resisting a hostile approach for union recognition in a UK distribution centre.
Tim is recognised as a leader in the field of employment law in Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession and has been described in Chambers as "lauded for his thorough understanding of even the most complicated of employment matters", "is recognised for giving clear and concise advice drawing on a wealth of knowledge to advise clients from many different industries" and "wins praise for his commercial and pragmatic advice" Chambers 2010.
Tim edited the employment chapter in Jordans Secretarial Administration for 5 years and has written regularly for FM World.