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Andy Atwell

Senior Associate

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
6 Queens Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4ZT
United Kingdom
Languages English

Andy Atwell is a Senior Associate in the Employment department. Andy has a strong reputation for his quick understanding of complex legal issues, and ability to communicate solutions effectively. As a result Andy is key to relationship support and management for clients across a number of sectors including energy, media and retail. He advises on a broad range of matters including complex grievance, capability and conduct issues, managing the transfer of employees under TUPE, workforce reductions, changes to terms and conditions, senior exits, and sensitive employee and industrial relations issues. He also uses this experience to great effect across his other work; whether advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions, or managing litigation and appearing before the Employment Tribunal. Andy regularly supports employers on mobile staffing issues, including cross-border, expat and international termination issues. Andy is an experienced client trainer, with contract variations and off-payroll rules (IR35) being recent examples.

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Education

  • 2005 – Legal Practice Course, Oxford Insitute of Legal Practice, Oxford
  • 2004 – Graduate Diploma in Law, BBP, London
  • 2001 – MA Classics, Bristol University, Bristol
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20/03/2017
CMS advises Patron Capital on sale of Generator Hostels
An international CMS team has advised longstanding client Patron Capital on the sale of design-led hostel owner and operator Generator Hostels to Queensgate Investments, a private equity real estate fund...

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01/12/2022
People considerations in Energy Transactions
Watch On Demand Transactions, whether M&A, outsourcing or insourcing, are a core part of many of our clients’ businesses;  however, while the key commercial heads of terms are generally hammered out...
29/09/2022
Off-payroll rules (IR35) – As you were?
The Chancellor positioned the Government’s mini-budget last week as a new approach for a new era, focused on growth. In the Chancellor’s speech, the off-payroll rules (introduced in 2017 for the public...
08/07/2022
The Government’s new direction for GDPR: what it means for workforce data
On 23 June 2022, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport published its response to its consultation (which closed in November 2021) regarding proposals to reform the UK’s data protection laws. The...
01/07/2021
Dismissals 101 - Redundancy
The CMS Employment team is delighted to invite you to join us for the next instalment in our “Lunchtime Learning” series - Dismissals 101.  In this series of four half an hour “bitesize” webinars...
05/11/2020
Employment webinar: Preparing for IR35 (again) and other upcoming employment...
In the first section of our webinar we will highlight some of the key employment law reforms and other developments which are on the horizon, focussing particularly on the Employment Bill. As a result...
18/05/2020
Off-payroll working: treating people fairly
On 17 March, the Treasury announced that the off-payroll reforms for medium and large companies in the private sector (often colloquially referred to as IR35 and due to go live on 6 April 2020) had been...
12/03/2019
GDPR bitesize: does an employer need to carry out a data privacy impact...
Most organisations have moved on from the implementation phase of their GDPR project to deal with “business as usual” queries. In this, our second “GDPR bitesize” series, we discuss a number...
07/02/2019
GDPR bitesize: sharing staff information in a corporate transaction
Most organisations have moved on from the implementation phase of their GDPR project to deal with “business as usual” queries. In this, our second “GDPR bitesize” series, we discuss a number...
04/05/2018
CMS advises Mainstream on high-level disposal of £2bn Neart na Gaoithe...
CMS has acted for Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream) on the disposal of the 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm project to the EDF Group, via EDF Renewables in the United Kingdom, a joint...
27/11/2017
Time to update your subject access procedures
The data subject access request (“DSAR”) has always been a central pillar to data protection legislation, providing individuals with a means of checking whether their data is being processed lawfully...
30/04/2015
Woolworths: Court of Justice confirms collective redundancy test to focus...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has today handed down its judgment in conjoined cases which will impact the trigger point when an employer will be obliged to collectively consult with...
06/02/2015
Woolworths: collective redundancy test to focus on “local employment unit”
The Advocate General in Strasbourg has published his opinion in three conjoined cases which, if followed by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), will impact the trigger point when an employer...