Tim Leaver

Practice Areas

Tim is a Partner in the Herbert Smith Freehills London Employment team with over 25 years of experience. Tim helps clients with their most challenging employment and partnership matters across the full range of sectors, working 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.

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.

Career

Tim studied at the University of Oxford and graduated in 1998 with a first class honours (MA) in Law. He graduated from the College of Law with a "commendation" in the LPC, and joined Herbert Smith Freehills as a trainee shortly thereafter.

Professional Memberships

Tim is a member of the Employment Lawyers' Association and the Association of Partnership Practitioners.