Adam Grant

Adam represents a diverse range of UK and international corporate clients.

Adam partners with companies and senior leadership teams to ensure the effective day-to-day and strategic management of staff. This means understanding the client’s business and delivering clear, concise and practical solutions to help it achieve its commercial aims.

His practice covers the full range of employment law, including advising on complex disciplinary, grievance, investigation, performance and discrimination issues, project managing restructures, redundancies, contractual variations and boardroom matters, transactional support (in particular in relation to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) and outsourcing) and dispute resolution, from managing grievances all the way through to defending claims in the Employment Tribunal and High Court. Adam has considerable expertise in commercial projects, professional services, hospitality, trade associations, recruitment, later living and the arts.

Adam also acts for senior executives and high net worth individuals. His focus is on helping them enter and exit the employment relationship in the most efficient and financially beneficial manner, including protecting bonuses, advising on the impact of post-employment restrictions and reputation management.

• Advising several global brands on large-scale resourcing reductions/collective redundancies, including dealing with union involvement.
• Representing a recruitment business in protecting its client base and preventing a team move brought about by former employees joining a competitor.
• Guiding a national business through significant changes to long-standing commission and bonus arrangements for its senior management team.
• Dealing with TUPE and outsourcing matters for a client partnering with an overseas business on its first UK venture, which involved supporting on the transfer of over 400 employees and the establishment of a new UK business, plus dealing with payroll and benefits issues.
• Representing a chief executive in respect of his exit from a listed business, maximising financial incentives and protecting market reputation.

• Adam co-authored ‘Boardroom Employment Law: From Recruitment to Dismissal’ (ICSA Publishing). He is a regular commentator in the national press and HR publications on employment law matters. He also provides clients with bespoke employment law training.

Adam is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.