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Tim Leaver

Tim Leaver

UK 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

Partnership: Contentious

UK-wide

4 years ranked

About

Provided by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK

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

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

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Employment: Employer - London (Firms)

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.

Partnership: Contentious - UK-wide

Band 4
Band 4

Individual Editorial
Tim Leaver advises professional partnership firms on misconduct allegations, team moves, whistle-blowing claims and retirements. He has particular expertise in the financial services industry.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

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

    Employment: EmployerChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • He is really excellent.

    Employment: EmployerChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Tim is a really really good lawyer.

    Employment: EmployerChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • He is constantly available, always communicative and really commercial: he understands clients' needs.

    Partnership: ContentiousChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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