Michael-Jon Andrews

My role & experience Michael-Jon or “MJ”, is a Senior Associate in the Employment Team and joined the firm’s Wimbledon office in November 2015 from another leading regional practice, where he worked for over seven years. He represents both SME company clients and individuals on the full range of employment law issues. MJ has successfully negotiated high value settlement agreements for Board Directors (including some on listed companies) to include shares, share options, restricted stock units and bonus arrangements. He has drafted and advised on contracts of employment, handbooks, service agreements for directors and consultancy agreements. MJ also has acted in asset sales for SME clients, advising on their TUPE obligations, for example, in relation to staff consultation and assisting in the drafting of indemnities and settlement agreements. MJ offers clients a seamless ‘one stop shop’ by undertaking all the work including advocacy in Employment Tribunal claims. He also has extensive experience of successfully advising companies and employees on post termination restrictions. For example he was involved in what is still regarded as the leading case on the enforceability of clauses in contracts of employment that prevent former employees from working with a competing business for 12 months after they leave (Thomas v Farr & Ors [2007] EWCA Civ 118). MJ was also instrumental in obtaining for a well known London estate agent, a High Court injunction in relation to 2 former employees that prevented them from misusing a stolen database of landlords to further their own new competing business. He regularly writes for magazine, newspapers and websites and presents seminars and training courses on topics such as the law related to agency workers, data protection and the transfer of employees upon a business sale (TUPE), to name but a few! My involvement with the community and associations MJ is a Member of the Employment Lawyers Association and regular attendee at Chamber of Commerce events. He is married, with 2 boys (under 10) and lives in Wimbledon. MJ is a rugby enthusiast and a significant part of his weekends involves a visit to the Old Wimbledonians Association, who run a mini section called the ‘Warriors’. He coaches the U7s. Something you may not know While backpacking through Sichuan province, China, in 1992, MJ ate chilli snake for lunch. It didn’t taste like chicken!