Expertise
Biography
Adam is a Partner within our Employment team, providing dedicated expert advice on a range of legal matters.
Background and Expertise
Before moving to Chester, Adam represented clients across the Kent and Bristol areas. Adam joined Aaron & Partners firstly in 2014 and was promoted to Senior Associate Solicitor in his five-year tenure. He then moved to a top 50 law firm as a Partner and headed up the Manchester employment team. Adam later rejoined the firm in 2020 as Partner in the Employment team and a strong focus on building the firm’s Cheshire and Greater Manchester presence.
Adam advises on all aspects of employment law from the beginning to the end of the employment relationship, as well as leading the firms offering on business immigration.
Specialisms and Personal Achievements
Adam’s practice has a focus on senior executives and complex terminations, business restructuring, TUPE /outsourcing, discrimination, whistleblowing claims and immigration. He has worked extensively in the private sector with businesses of all sizes from SMEs to multi-nationals and PLCs and heads up the immigration side of employment law.
Adam provides specialist advice to clients across a wide range of sectors. Namely, engineering, care, pharmaceutical, automotive, charitable, technology and oil & gas. He advises companies on Sponsor Licence applications and renewals, Sponsor Compliance and auditing, Skilled Worker visa applications, Defined and Undefined Certificate of Sponsorship, Global Business Mobility visas and Visitor visas.
Due to Adam’s specialism in both employment and business immigration law, he has been instructed on several multi-million-pound business closures of UK manufacturing sites and assisting with relocation of product lines to better cost countries.
Adam anticipates and pre-empts challenges for companies and delivers a solution swiftly and efficiently. Adams highly personable approach ensures he develops long standing trusted client relationships and is always on hand to provide support. He looks at each case from a business and legal perspective, offering honest advice that puts the clients first. As a result of his outstanding work, Adam was awarded ‘Recommended Lawyer’ by the Legal 500 2024 rankings.
Furthermore, Adam is a Trustee for the Warrington Disability Partnership, a charity that promotes the independent living of those will disabilities and long-term health conditions.
Examples of recent work
- Advising a global leader in the automotive industry on a 100,000,000 euro restructuring project including trade union negotiation and redundancy advise.
- Regularly advising senior directors on sponsor licences and skilled worker visas. Including manufacturing businesses, AI tech company, large care providers and multi-national oil businesses.
- Advising a multi-national manufacturing company on breach of restrictive covenants by a senior director. Successfully negotiating undertakings to prevent a High Court Injunction.
- Successfully negotiating a multi-million-pound settlement package for an exiting MD.
