Amanda Badley is a Partner and heads up the Employment & HR department at BHW. Amanda is a Recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 legal industry guide.
With over 25 years of experience in employment law and a CIPD qualification, Amanda delivers strategic and business friendly advice to organisations across a multitude of sectors.
Her expertise covers everything from large-scale reorganisations/redundancies and TUPE transfers, to the day-to-day management of HR issues, disputes, and employment tribunal claims. She also advises senior executives on exit strategies and provides expert employment law support on corporate transactions.
Amanda is known for her practical, solutions driven approach and for adding value beyond traditional legal advice. She regularly delivers seminars, workshops, and webinars, and has partnered with organisations such as ACAS to provide training and guidance to clients and HR professionals alike.
In addition, Amanda offers further value to clients via a bespoke HR employment law retainer service.
Work highlights include:
- Strategic Workforce Restructuring: Advising a company on a complex, multi-site reorganisation and redundancy programme, ensuring legal compliance and minimising risk across its operations.
- Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) Conversions: Supporting our corporate team on the employment implications of multiple conversion projects for clients where they are transitioning to employee ownership structures.
- Senior Executive Exit: Assisting a global insurance company with the negotiated departure of a director, including advice on risk mitigation and enforceability of post termination restrictions.
- Ongoing HR Advisory: Providing day-to-day employment law support to an international eCommerce business, advising on a range of employee issues, policy, and compliance matters.
- Bonus & Incentive Schemes: Drafting and advising on complex bonus and incentive arrangements for a large corporate group, balancing commercial objectives with enforceability and transparency.
- Cross-Border TUPE Dispute: Advising on the employment law aspects of a contentious cross-border TUPE matter, involving multiple jurisdictions and competing interpretations of employee transfer rights.
- Employment Tribunal Claim: advising a senior executive with respect to a potential high-value employment tribunal claim involving allegations of whistleblowing, sex discrimination, and disability discrimination, alongside related internal grievance proceedings.
- Corporate Transaction Support: Advising on employment-related aspects of the purchase of a nationwide property services company, guiding the client through the due diligence process and contractual terms.
I’ve worked with Amanda Badley for a number of years, and she is a credit to the firm. She understands our business and the quirks within, assessing the risks and understanding how this impacts us.
The Department’s expertise and willingness to listen and communicate with their clients makes them stand out. Amanda Badley is accessible and able to communicate with clients and solicitors.
