London Bar
Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
Leading junior3Tom Gentleman – 4 Stone Buildings
4 Stone Buildings
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Tom Gentleman
4 Stone Buildings, London
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Specialist in commercial litigation, company law, financial services and insolvency. Recommended as a leading junior in the major directories.
Position
Tom is a leading commercial chancery junior. His practice covers the full range of commercial law, but he has particular expertise in civil fraud, company law, shareholder disputes, insolvency, banking and financial services. He appears in large scale litigation in the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division and in arbitration. He acts as a sole advocate, or as a senior junior in a larger counsel team.
Tom regularly works overseas, with recent cases in the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Guernsey. He has been called to the Cayman Islands bar.
Recent cases include the Hewlett Packard / Autonomy litigation, a $5bn claim about an alleged accounting fraud; and the Tchenguiz v Grant Thornton litigation, arising out of the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing.
Full details available on the chambers website at www.4stonebuildings.com/barrister/tom-gentleman
Career
Called 2005; Lincoln’s Inn.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Education
Christ Church, University of Oxford (MA Modern History, Scholar); City University, London (GDL); Lord Brougham Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn.
Mentions
London Bar
Commercial litigation
Leading junior3Tom Gentleman – 4 Stone Buildings 'Tom is extremely clever, hard-working and a real team player. He is thoughtful and strategically very astute.'
London Bar
Company
Leading junior4Tom Gentleman – 4 Stone Buildings ‘Tom is very good at condensing a lot of information into a succinct pleading.’
London Bar
Fraud: civil
Leading junior4Tom Gentleman – 4 Stone Buildings