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Bates Wells Offices

10 QUEEN STREET PLACE
LONDON
EC4R 1BE
England
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Martin Bunch

Work Department
Employment.
Position
Martin is Bates Wells’ Managing Partner and has been a practising employment lawyer since 1996. In his role as Managing Partner Martin works closely with the firm’s Management Board and Senior Management Team to develop and deliver the firm’s strategy and business activities.
Together with his daily management responsibilities, Martin stays close to clients through his employment law practice, not only because he enjoys legal client work but because it’s vital to keep our clients’ interests and needs at the heart of everything we do as a firm. Martin also frequently visit clients as part of our firm’s wider client-listening programme.
Martin is an experienced advocate in the Employment Tribunal and an accredited CEDR mediator. He works in all areas of employment law with a particular focus on TUPE issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions, and the protection of confidential information and other confidential property by the enforcement of contractual covenants.
Martin also provides contentious and non-contentious advice to clients ranging from large commercial clients to charities and individuals.
Career
- Trained Simpson Millar; qualified 1987
- Joined Bates Wells, 1991
- Partner, 1997
- Deputy senior partner, 2011
- Managing Partner, 2013
Memberships
- Employment Lawyers Association
- B Corp Ambassador
Education
- Reed’s School, Cobham
- Bristol University (1983 BSc Hons)
Leisure
RFU Referee/coach; Trustee,
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Public sector > Electoral
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Industry focus > TMT
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market