Andrew Granger – Partner

Andrew read law at Cambridge University and has specialised in employment law since qualifying as a solicitor and joining Taylor Wessing in 1985. He was made a partner in 1991 and, in 1996, he set up the Employment and Pensions Department, serving as Head of Department and member of the firm’s Executive Board until 2004. During this period the Department tripled in size. Employment and Pensions continues to be a vibrant practice and major profit centre for the firm; accounts for about 8% of its revenue; and is very well regarded by the legal directories. 

As International Integration Partner, the role he assumed on stepping down as Head of Department, Andrew is now in charge of the International Employment & Pensions Group’s integration strategy and works closely with the firm’s offices in Germany, France and Belgium.

Andrew's employment law practice now covers many areas of UK and international business. He has developed particular expertise in the insurance, banking, aviation, printing, publishing, and  construction sectors, plus information technology and other intellectual property rich industries.

Andrew acts primarily for companies and institutions but he also handles a wide range of work for individuals – particularly senior employees and partners – a field in which he has established a noteworthy reputation over the past 20 years. He is "highly regarded" and considered "excellent" by the Legal 500 and praised by Chambers for his "pragmatic solutions and ability to remain calm under pressure" and is undoubtedly one of the City's leading practitioners in this area.

Andrew handles all types of employment law work and tackles a wide range of human resource issues. His practice is focussed, however, on the following (listed alphabetically):

• Corporate acquisitions and disposals
• Corporate restructuring
• Discrimination
• Negotiation of employment contracts
• Partnership disputes
• Recruitment
• Termination of employment
• TUPE

Andrew is listed in "Legal Experts", published by Legal Business. His leadership of the Department over 8 years and his contribution to Taylor Wessing’s business was specifically recognised by Legal Business when the Employment and Pensions Department was short listed for Employment and Pensions Team of the Year, in 2004.  Andrew was Head of British American Business Inc's Employment Forum from 2001 to 2005; has been a director of the US fund manager, Bessemer Group UK, since 2000; was a trustee of DARE, the charity which helps employees with disabilities, from 2000 to 2008; and this year achieved an important victory against the United Nations, in the UN’s highest court, acting on a pro bono basis for the widow of one of his best friends.

Taylor Wessing Practices

• Arbeitsrecht

Taylor Wessing Industries

• Financial Institutions & Services

Leistungsbereiche

• Versicherungen