UK Guide 2026 : London (Firms)
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Provided by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
The firm Employment Team is recognised as one of the most experienced, pragmatic and responsive full-service employment teams globally. In the UK, we are one of few firms ranked as top tier in both leading legal directories for Employment Law.
The team is adept at advising employers on contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including restructurings and reorganisations, TUPE transfers in the context of M&A and outsourcings, listed company issues, DSARs and employee data protection, investigations (often involving regulatory considerations), team moves and bonus claims in the High Court and discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunal. We are the “go-to” firm for complex, high-stakes and reputationally significant litigation. We draw on extensive experience to deploy novel, multi-disciplinary, strategic analysis to achieve our clients’ objectives.
We are at the forefront of legal developments and take a cross-practice approach to address incentives, corporate governance, tax and regulatory considerations.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's employment team is widely recognised for the strength of its employment litigation work and offers a wealth of experience in handling all manner of complex employment tribunal and High Court matters. The firm also works with employers on board-level disputes and investigations. It regularly advises large employers from the retail sector and financial services.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer continues to act for the Church of England on a complex issue relating to expression of protected beliefs.
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The HSF team are proactive and dynamic in managing the employment related aspects of commercial transactions. Their strategic advice is always tailored to our business needs and objectives.
They have a seemingly innate ability to rapidly understand any given situation and offer well-considered advice.
HSF has provided prompt, easily digestible advice and provided a practical application of the law to the specific matter.
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Peter is technically brilliant.
Andrew Taggart is a very safe pair of hands and has a calm presence.
Andrew Taggart is very highly regarded in the industry and has a fantastic profile. He just gets it from a client side and understands what the best solution is.
Andrew is very good and knowledgeable in his approach.
Tim is an extremely knowledgeable, astute and personable individual, with whom working is a pleasure.
He is really excellent.
Tim is a really really good lawyer.
Her commercial vision is very strong. She helped us out of a tricky situation very professionally.
Christine is my go-to for employment law advice.
Christine Young is superb.
Christine readily provides clear expert advice and is dynamic in her dealings with clients.
Nick is really really impressive. He is incredibly diligent, but also really sensible. He does a really good job for his client.
Nick is really on top of the detail, very strategic and precise.
Nick Wright is calm under pressure, incredibly bright, thinks around issues and comes up often with off piece ways of looking at things that can make all the difference.
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Provided by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
Andrew Taggart
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Practice area: Employment
Location: Global: Multi-Jurisdictional
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