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Tom is a partner and leads the Finance Disputes team in London.

Tom has over 20 years’ experience of litigating high value and complex disputes with a particular focus on banking and finance disputes. Tom is ranked as a "Leading Individual" for banking litigation in the legal directories.

In 2017, Tom was seconded to a large UK bank where he worked on a range of high profile matters including a substantial remediation scheme, follow on litigation against the bank and parallel regulatory investigations, together with more “business as usual” claims.

Tom regularly handles large scale cross-border disputes involving High Court proceedings or international arbitration. Tom also acts for international and domestic insolvency practitioners in pursuing claims on behalf of insolvent estates. Since becoming a partner in 2011, Tom has strong experience of advising banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of contentious issues; civil fraud claims; joint venture disputes; claims regarding directors duties; and applications for interim remedies including freezing injunctions.

2000 – LPC, Nottingham Law School (Distinction) 1999 – LLB, University of Nottingham, Nottingham