Malcolm Pike

Background

About Malcolm Pike

After a career spanning 40 years in private legal practice, during which time he gained extensive management, leadership, and NED experience in both the commercial and voluntary sectors, as well as wide recognition, nationally and internationally, as one of the world’s leading employment and industrial relations lawyers, Malcolm now enjoys a portfolio of wide-ranging voluntary and commercial interests. He is currently Chair of Governors at Withington Girls' School, Vice President and NED of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Rugby Football League's Independent Employment Tribunal, a member of the ACAS panel of Independent Arbitrators, and Associate General Counsel - Employment (EMEA) at Associated British Foods plc. Having qualified as a Solicitor and spent 8 years as a Manager at Freshfields in London, Malcolm was for almost 28 years and until his retirement from the firm in 2020, a Partner at Addleshaw Goddard, serving as Head of the Manchester Office (from 2014 to 2018), as a Divisional Managing Partner and member of the Executive Board (from 1997 to 2014), as Head of the Employment Team (from 1992 to 2002), as a member of the core negotiating teams in two of the firm's formative and highly successful mergers (in 1997 and 2003), and as Client Relationship Partner for a number of its Key Clients (including Associated British Foods). A regular speaker at conferences and on training courses, Malcolm has written, contributed to and edited numerous publications on employment law, including the Employment title in Butterworth's Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents and Jordans Employment Law.