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About
Provided by Nick Wright
Practice Areas
Nick has built a reputation for providing responsive, user-friendly and pragmatic advice on partnership and employment issues. In addition to advisory work, Nick guides clients through transactions, investigations and disputes, including litigation in the Employment Tribunal and High Court. Nick has extensive experience on advising on disputes involving discrimination, whistleblowing and restrictive covenant issues.
Nick advises clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on professional and financial services firms. Nick regularly delivers training to clients on various aspects of employment and partnership law. Nick works closely with colleagues based overseas to deliver advice on cross-border matters.
Career
Nick studied at the University of Cambridge before joining Herbert Smith Freehills in 2010. He became a Partner at the firm in May 2022.
Over his career Nick has developed a substantial practice, regularly dealing with complex and high profile and sensitive employment and partnership matters, on both the contentious and non-contentious side. He has a strong following and acts as a trusted advisor to many businesses.
Professional Memberships
Nick is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and Association of Partnership Practitioners.
Chambers Review
UK
Nick Wright is able to utilise his employment law expertise to support professional service firms on a range of partnership matters, particularly disputes.
Nick Wright is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills who assists clients with contentious and non-contentious employment matters. He is experienced advising on team moves and discrimination claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nick is calm, clear and extremely responsive."
"He is very pragmatic, very diligent and a pleasure to work with."
"Nick is a very strong commercially focused and client-oriented legal professional."
"Nick has extensive substantive knowledge of the field and he is very good at providing effective, informed advice that works in the real world."
"Nick has real gravitas and expertise."
"Nick is calm, clear and extremely responsive."
"He is very pragmatic, very diligent and a pleasure to work with."
"Nick is a very strong commercially focused and client-oriented legal professional."
"Nick has extensive substantive knowledge of the field and he is very good at providing effective, informed advice that works in the real world."
"Nick has real gravitas and expertise."
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