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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‘s employment practice group is among the largest in the Thames Valley and acts on behalf of international clients in the tech, leisure and hospitality sectors. Barry Stanton heads up the team and represents many of the firm’s high-end clients in this space. Helen Goss is another key contact within the team, praised for her ‘invaluable blend of legal guidance, support, encouragement and resilience’. She has particular expertise in discrimination, breach of contract and whistleblowing claims. Andrew Whiteaker handles the full-range of employment law issues, and is recommended by clients for providing ‘pragmatic advice in a user friendly manner’. Senior associate Claire Taylor-Evans is an experienced tribunal advocate and focuses her practice on complex discrimination claims and managing high-level exits.
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
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- 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
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Public sector
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40