London Bar
Aviation and Travel
Leading junior4Tom Stewart Coats – XXIV Old Buildings 'Tom is fantastic to work with - he is very clever, strategic and creative. He has very good attention to detail and is of course a true expert in his field.'
XXIV Old Buildings
Barristers
Tom Stewart Coats
XXIV Old Buildings, London
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Position
Tom’s experience includes general commercial disputes (both litigation and arbitration), banking and financial services disputes, aviation, trusts and estates litigation, company and insolvency law, and public international law. Tom has a particular interest in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, whether for companies, private clients or states, which involve multiple forums and different systems of law.
Tom appears in both court proceedings (in the UK and offshore) and in arbitration. He is happy to be instructed on his own or as part of a larger team. Tom has recently appeared unled against KCs in eight significant hearings in the English High Court and in the DIFC Courts.
Tom regularly appears in applications for urgent injunctive relief, including for pre and post-judgment freezing orders, proprietary injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust orders, and passport orders.
Prior to joining XXIV, Tom was an associate at a boutique law firm, Omnia Strategy LLP, where he specialised in arbitration (both investment treaty and commercial) and public international law.
Tom is registered to appear as an advocate before the DIFC Courts and has a busy practice before those courts. He has also recently acted or advised in relation to matters in Jersey, Guernsey, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, Hong Kong, the onshore UAE courts, and in ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA and ICSID arbitrations.
Career
Call: 2014
Memberships
Commercial Bar Association
Chancery Bar Association
LCIA Young International Arbitration Group
Young ICCA
Young ICSID
ICC Young Arbitrators Forum
Part II Registered Practitioner before the DIFC Courts
Education
BA Classics – Jesus College, Cambridge
GDL (Distinction, top 5 overall) – City University, London
BPTC (Outstanding) – City University, London
Mentions
London Bar
Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
Leading junior3Tom Stewart Coats – XXIV Old Buildings
Middle East: The English Bar
Commercial
Leading junior2Tom Stewart Coats – XXIV Old Buildings ‘Tom is one of a very small number of junior barristers practising in the DIFC Courts who has real and extensive DIFC Court advocacy experience. He has an uncanny feel for how judges will look at particular issues and is very well respected, making him one of the go-tos.’
London Bar
International arbitration: counsel
Leading junior3Tom Stewart Coats – XXIV Old Buildings 'Tom is both very capable and has huge enthusiasm in his practice in this area - someone who brings real uplift to his matters.'
London Bar
Public international law
Leading junior3Tom Stewart Coats – XXIV Old Buildings ‘Tom is a superstar – he is exceptionally bright, creative and his drafting skills are second to none. He is unfazed appearing in court against much senior opponents and silks – his submissions are compelling and clear. He is a superstar.’