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Tim Leaver

Tim Leaver

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

- Employment

- Partnerships and LLPs

- Employment litigation

- Employment, pensions and incentives

- Industrial relations

Career

Tim is a partner based in our London office. Tim is an employment and partnership. 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' focused 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.

For additional information on Tim’s professional background, please visit: https://www.hsfkramer.com/our-people/t/tim-leaver

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Chambers Global Guide

Employment - UK

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Partner Tim Leaver has experience advising large employers on transactional and contentious employment matters at Herbert Smith Freehills. He is proficient in discrimination claims and the SMCR. He also acts as a mental health mentor as part of the firm's diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Strengths

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  • Tim is a really, really good lawyer.

    EmploymentChambers Global Guide
  • Tim is an extremely knowledgeable, astute and personable individual, with whom working is a pleasure.

    EmploymentChambers Global Guide
  • He is really excellent.

    EmploymentChambers Global Guide

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