Tim Leaver

Tim helps clients with their most challenging employment and partnership matters across the full range of sectors. He works 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.

With 25 years' specialist experience Tim has helped clients on all aspects of their employment and partnership-related challenges, from setting up new businesses, to executing complex and multi-faceted internal investigations and implementing team moves.

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.

Tim has been singled out by clients and the legal directories for his client-focused, pragmatic and commercial advice. Chambers and Partners describe him as "technically strong, extremely commercial and responsive, as well as attentive, with great rapport.", while Legal 500 notes him as a "one of the most gifted litigators in the field. Always tactically ahead of the opposition."

Tim is a proponent of the firm's diversity and inclusivity initiatives and is one of the firm's dedicated Mental Health Mentors.

Background

Tim has an degree in law (first class honours) from Oxford University (MA Oxon).