Highly regarded employment lawyer
Known for his broad range of commercial experience and his practical, solution-focussed legal advice.
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About Will
People engage me to resolve complex employment law issues and disputes because I do the difficult, very well.
UK employment laws are vast and complex and when clients engage me for the first time it is often in connection with a serious business or professional crisis of a kind they have never experienced before…
Specialist Services
Employment Tribunal Claims
Confidentiality, Restrictive Covenants and Enforcement Action
Protecting your Customers, Suppliers and Workforce
Senior Executive Exits and Settlement Agreements
TUPE, Redundancy and Reorganising Your Workforce
Service Agreements, Employment Contracts and Handbooks
Investigations
IR35, Consultants and Independent Workers
Why Employers
Choose Will
Employers choose to work with Will because he provides them with a great all round service. They know that Will is always available when they need him, that his unique skills are especially valuable in a crisis, and that Will can be trusted to give robust and commercial, solution-driven advice without breaking the bank.
Fundamentally, Will is a first class tactician who will always tell his clients what he would do in their shoes, knowing what he knows about the law and legal process, in order to achieve that client’s particular objectives.
Don’t just take our word for it. You can read what Will’s clients say about him themselves on the testimonials page.
Will is often engaged by owner managers, chief executives, HR directors or general counsel of businesses across all sectors and which tend to have a turnover between £10m to £50m and, typically, 50 to 500 employees.
Case 01
Successfully representing a large retail payments business in High Court proceedings to restrain a team of four sales representatives by injunction from joining a competing business.
Case 02
Acting for the continuing members of a large professional services LLP in connection with the departure of a full member – swiftly negotiating and concluding the terms of their retirement deed.
Case 03
Acting as investigator in relation to complaints of discrimination against a member of the SLT of a large vehicle insurance provider.
Case 04
Successfully obtaining a High Court springboard injunction on an application without notice against an employer client’s sales executive who was planning to leave the business to join a competitor.
Why Senior Individuals
Choose Will
Will has always maintained a strong case load of work for senior executives and directors throughout his legal career.
In the vast majority of cases, those individuals are recommended to Will by former clients or by their other professional advisers (accountants, financial advisers, wealth managers, bankers and other lawyers).
Sometimes, Will is re-engaged when the client experiences another ‘bump in the road’ during their career.
There are very few life events that present more challenges, worry and stress for senior executives than when they are faced with the risk of losing their employment whether on the grounds of redundancy, performance or for other reasons.
It can be equally stressful when you are having to consider a change in employment or career to take up a completely new opportunity or to join or create a new business that would compete in the same space as their present employer.
For people facing these challenging career episodes, Will brings his calm and assured expertise to difficult situations. Will’s measured, professional and collaborative style lifts pressure from his clients, and his client’s often achieve more positive and financially attractive outcomes, and within agreed budgets.
Don’t just take our word for it. You can read what Will’s senior executive clients have said themselves on the testimonials page.
Case 01
Acting for city banker in high value disability discrimination claim against one of the UK’s largest retail banks.
Case 02
Acting for leader of large electrical goods manufacturer, turning over in excess of £1bn, in connection with a whistle blowing dispute.
Case 03
Acting for CEO of FCA regulated business in connection with constructive unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal claims.
Case 04
Advising and representing CEO on exit from a £10bn turnover construction business, negotiating and concluding £seven-figure settlement terms.
Case 05
Advising and representing CEO on exit from a national domestic heating and plumbing services business, negotiating and concluding settlement terms.
Case 06
Acting for entire executive team on exit from multinational fintech business, concluding five £seven-figure exit packages within five days.