Tim Nye

Trowers & Hamlins

Trowers & Hamlins corporate partner Tim Nye’s focus is firmly on helping ensure his firm raises its game, profile and brand both among its UK clients, which include the likes of Inflexion, Oakley, Apposite and Octopus, as well as in the wider market.

To achieve the latter, Nye and his team have embarked on a two-pronged, five-year strategy targeting repeat M&A work and a range of non bet-the-company matters handled for a flat fee. The concept, called ‘Outsourcing the Company Secretary’, sees investee companies take advantage of Trowers’ suite of legal services for ad hoc and day-to-day matters, allowing the firm to track trends within that organisation and build up a corporate history on its client’s and investors’ behalf. The more Trowers becomes the corporate memory of its clients, the more it positions itself to pick up M&A.

Nye is currently working on a thought-leadership project for 2020 focusing on micro-innovation using research-led statistics to demonstrate and add value for clients. The project will reveal how clients can take macro trends and then innovate, show agility and adapt to harness change within their own businesses so as to stay relevant to stakeholders. It is not a million miles away from what Nye is doing at and for Trowers itself.