Tim Clark

Tim Clark is a partner in our Employment Law team and one of the firm’s two joint managing partners. He advises clients from our Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Wokingham offices, as well as remotely.

Highly experienced in the strategic aspects of large scale workforce projects, Tim can provide organisations with specialist advice on dealing with reorganisation, restructuring, redundancy and TUPE issues, alongside a range of other Employment Law matters. 

He also acts for employees, including senior executives, advising on complex service agreements, commission and bonus arrangements, settlement agreements, exit provisions and termination packages. Tim is an expert in the tax aspects of these arrangements.

He is recommended in the UK's leading guides to law firms, Chambers UK Guide and The Legal 500, and has appeared on BBC television and radio as an Employment Law expert.

Like fellow joint managing partner Jonathan Gater, Tim completed his legal training at Blandy & Blandy and he has been with the firm for over 25 years. He trained as a litigator before going on to specialise in Employment Law.

Tim actively participates in the firm's annual programme of events, including Employment Law updates and a mock employment tribunal.

Examples of recent work

• Advising a transport company on the transfer to it of a significant number of employees covered by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) and the issues involved in the subsequent restructuring of the way the workforce delivered the services provided.

• Advising a family company on the employment aspects of the purchase of an independent hotel, including the transfer of staff under TUPE and a linked redundancy process.

• Advising a senior executive of a leading pharmaceuticals company on a settlement package, including both compensation and share option provisions worth c £0.75m.

• Advising a vice president of sales on a settlement offered in the context of a change in control of the company for which they worked, achieving a 50% increase in the compensation ultimately paid by the employer compared with its original offer.

• Advising on the defence of multiple employment tribunal claims brought by employees made redundant in the context of the restructuring of our client’s salesforce, successfully securing the dismissal of their claims following settlement for limited sums in each case.

• Advising the remaining shareholder and director of a long established local family company on the exit from the company of their co-shareholders and co-directors, involving the successful resolution of employment, directorship and share-related issues.