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Andrew Whiteaker
Work Department
Employment
Position
Andy is a partner and head of the highly regarded Employment team at Boyes Turner. He advises clients in a wide variety of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including human resources support, providing employment support for mergers, acquisitions, and disposals, employment tribunal litigation and negotiating and drafting executive service contracts.
Andy’s clients include national and multination organisations, and he provides international support for clients with cross-jurisdictional issues through Boyes Turner’s network of partner law firms. He focuses on providing practical advice, seeking to identify pragmatic and commercial solutions to his clients’ needs.
Career
Andrew has specialised in employment law since qualifying in 2004. He speaks regularly and provides training to in-house legal advisors and HR professionals, as well as drafting and presenting bespoke training seminars and workshops for clients.
He has also spent time seconded in-house with both a global soft-drinks manufacturer and a multinational semiconductor business supporting the latter’s business across the EMEA region.
He joined Boyes Turner in 2008, and was promoted to partnership in 2020.
Languages
English
Memberships
He is a member of the Law Society, the Employment Lawyers Association, the European Employment Lawyers Association and is Commitee Chair on the Reading Abbey Quarter Business Improvement District committee.
Education
BA Politics, Loughborough University (1999)
Leisure
Andrew enjoys reading, mainly history books. He plays many sports and supports his children’s teams as an FA Level 1 football coach and as a coach at Rams RFC.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
(Next Generation Partners)Boyes Turner enjoys an esteemed reputation across the tech, leisure and hospitality sectors, and is regularly engaged by a varied client roster, including both start-ups and global companies in a range of high stakes mandates. ‘Standout’ Andrew Whiteaker spearheads the practice, advising international clients across complex strategic mandates, as well as day-to-day support. Barry Stanton regularly advises global medical devices companies, manufacturers and technology businesses on a varied range of issues, while ‘very knowledgeable’ and ‘pragmatic’ Helen Goss leads the leisure and hospitality sector across the firm. Claire Taylor-Evans‘s expertise includes employment law and corporate immigration.
Lawyer Rankings
- Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40 South East > Employment
- Next Generation Partners South East > Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Property litigation