Blair Adams

Solicitor, Winckworth Sherwood

Blair is a Partner in the employment team with more than 20 years’ experience of working with businesses and senior executives.

He is a highly pragmatic lawyer who focuses on getting the best outcomes for clients in all situations and on providing excellent value. He works closely with businesses in a variety of sectors, supporting them through their responses to challenging or evolving circumstances, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

Blair acts for multinational groups, large corporates and owner-managed businesses. He advises them on all aspects of employment law, such as restructuring exercises, difficult performance and conduct issues, whistleblowing and discrimination, internal investigations, international mobility, senior level recruitment and departures, and restrictive covenant enforcement. He has extensive experience of litigation in the Employment Tribunal and the High Court.

He frequently works with clients on international matters, managing global or regional projects in conjunction with trusted advisers outside the UK.

Contributed to

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Outsourcing agreement—long form employment (TUPE) provisions

Precedents

This Precedent contains employment provisions to be inserted into a precedent long form outsourcing agreement, under which the customer appoints a supplier as an outsourced services provider of a particular business function of the customer, change of service provider. It is in schedule form, drafted in favour of the customer. It contains specific provisions covering the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006) on entry into the deal and on exit together with reporting and related obligations to ensure smooth TUPE transitions if a termination or transfer of service occurs during the term.

Employment

Outsourcing agreement—short form employment (TUPE) provisions

Precedents

This Precedent contains employment provisions to be inserted in a precedent short form outsourcing agreement, under which the customer appoints a supplier as an outsourced services provider of a particular business function of the customer. It is drafted on a balanced basis. It contains specific provisions covering the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006) on entry into the deal and on exit together with reporting and related obligations to ensure smooth TUPE transitions if a termination or transfer of service occurred during the term.

Employment