Employment

Alex leads the Company/Commercial team at Buss Murton. He joined the firm in 2012 from his own boutique corporate firm that he started up in 2010, bringing with him 20 years’ experience in leadership positions as in-house corporate counsel for such companies as FremantleMedia Limited (the makers of the X Factor and Grand Designs) and as Head of Corporate Strategy and General Counsel for the Jamie Oliver group of companies. Educated in New Zealand and the UK, and having worked with global organisations, Alex has gained significant experience, and led and contributed to high profile international media acquisitions and business strategy. As a result, Alex is not only able to advise on the legal aspects of an enterprise’s business, but is also able to bring a unique perspective having been involved in the operational aspects of those enterprises. In addition to these insights, Alex has also been at the heart of a number of change management projects, and led transformation and integration initiatives. With this wealth of experience, Alex can advise on a broad spectrum of company and commercial law. These include corporate and business acquisition and disposals, debt financings, corporate finance, insolvency, restructuring, and corporate governance right through to employment (non-contentious and contentious), commercial contracts, agency arrangements, data protection and intellectual property.

Andrew joined Buss Murton Law in 1995 as a Trainee Solicitor and was subsequently appointed Head of Employment prior to then being promoted to Partner and then Managing Partner in 2015. Andrew continues to combine his role of Managing Partner with the provision of employment law advice to both employers and employees. Specialising in providing advice to employers on all aspects of employment law ranging from employment contracts for their senior executives to group redundancy arrangements; he also advises senior executives on their terms of engagement, revisions to their terms and conditions and, where necessary, negotiating their severance packages. Andrew has experience of all forms of dispute resolution ranging from the Employment Tribunal through mediation and arbitration to High Court action.

Barney joined Buss Murton’s Dispute Resolution department in June 2025 and is based in our Tunbridge Wells office. Barney graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2019 with a first class honours degree in Law. After spending a year working in local law firms as a paralegal, he went on to study the Legal Practice Course and a Master’s degree in Law in 2021, achieving a distinction class mark in both. Barney trained as a solicitor at a regional East Sussex firm and qualified in April 2024. Since qualifying, Barney has gained a wide range of experience in the Employment Department of a large East Sussex firm. Barney is particularly interested in Employment Law and Dispute Resolution. He has experience acting for both employers and employees in contentious and non-contentious matters. Aside from Employment Law, Barney has experience dealing with commercial litigation, particularly contractual disputes and property disputes.