Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Dispute Resolution / Private Wealth Disputes

Associate

Tom specialises in trust and estate disputes.

Tom acts for a broad range of clients, including trustees, executors and beneficiaries, in relation to a variety of trust and succession disputes.

Tom has particular expertise in complex trust disputes, including representative beneficiary work, and a growing specialism in landed estates, acting for both the custodians of and beneficiaries to inter-generational family wealth. Tom regularly works alongside the firm’s private client team to deal with contentious and non-contentious trust and succession matters both in England and in offshore jurisdictions.

Tom is a member of the Agricultural Law Association.

Experience Advising on a wide-ranging dispute between the trustees and beneficiaries of a landed estate involving assets in excess of £100m Advising the beneficiary to a well-known landed estate in a long running dispute with his co-beneficiary Acting for an executor in removal proceedings involving complex account claims Acting for representative beneficiaries of a large employee share trust in Public Trustee v Cooper proceedings relating to the sale of a high-profile business