London Bar
Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
HALL OF FAME2Tom Smith KC –South Square ‘Tom is a formidable advocate and master strategist with a towering intellect. Yet, despite his status, he rolls his sleeves up and mucks in.’
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Tom Smith KC
South Square, London
- Phone020 7696 9900
- Email[email protected]
Position
Tom specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration, banking and finance, corporate insolvency and restructuring and company law including investment funds. He also practices extensively in the fields of civil fraud and asset recovery, professional negligence and trusts.
Tom is an experienced advocate in both court litigation and arbitrations. He has extensive experience of major commercial trials. He has also been involved in many of the major restructuring and insolvency cases in recent years, including significant Supreme Court, House of Lords and Privy Council decisions in the fields of banking, insolvency and restructuring and investment funds. Tom frequently appears as an advocate both in England and in other jurisdictions including the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Dubai and Gibraltar.
Career
Called 1999 (Middle Temple); QC 2014.
Memberships
COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; London Court of International Arbitration.
Education
Clare College, Cambridge (1997 MA Law, 1998 LLM).
Mentions
London Bar
Commercial litigation
HALL OF FAME3Tom Smith KC –South Square ‘Tom is absolutely at the top of his game - a highly respected and authoritative presence in front of judges, masterful in his cross-examination of hostile witnesses, and also very responsive and willing to get involved in a way that instructing lawyers and clients really appreciate.’
London Bar
Company
HALL OF FAME2Tom Smith KC – South Square ‘Excellent responsiveness and technically amazing, he has a brilliant advocacy style, reads the court well and is highly persuasive.’
London Bar
Fraud: civil
HALL OF FAME2Tom Smith KC –South Square
'A formidable advocate and master strategist with a towering intellect. He is a first choice for complex fraud work; and despite his status, he rolls his sleeves up and mucks in.'
London Bar
Insolvency
HALL OF FAME2Tom Smith KC –South Square ‘Extremely smart. Always helpful and responsive. Excellent judgement – knows where to push the envelope and where discretion is the better part of valour.’
The English Bar Offshore
The English Bar Offshore
HALL OF FAME1Tom Smith KC –South Square 'Tom is quite simply the gold-standard of restructuring and insolvency barristers. His advocacy is measured, logical, and surgical - and as a result, incredibly persuasive. This is always underpinned by excellent written work, both in terms of advice and written advocacy.'