Tom is a Principal Associate in our Litigation and Dispute Management group, specialising in high-stakes commercial disputes for financial services and institutional clients.
He manages complex, multi-jurisdictional matters worth hundreds of millions of pounds that are strategically critical and reputationally sensitive.
He is ranked as a Leading Associate for banking litigation in the North West by Legal 500 and recognised as a Key Lawyer in the international Civil Fraud team. Clients describe him as “a superb associate (and partner in the making)” who is “brilliant, dedicated, engaged, client focused” and “a delight to work with.”
Tom has developed particular expertise in equitable and restitution claims, civil fraud and asset recovery, and contentious insolvency. His practice spans sophisticated interim relief applications, cross-border asset tracing, and complex multi-party disputes.
Tom has published in Law360, Global Restructuring Review, and Practical Law Company, and regularly delivers client training on interim relief and asset recovery strategy. He also serves on multiple client service teams for key financial services clients.
- acting for Barclays Bank Plc in pursuing £13.7m of losses arising from an alleged unlawful means conspiracy and unjust enrichment, including (i) continuing domestic and worldwide freezing injunctions, (ii) obtaining non-party disclosure orders, and (iii) bringing contempt applications for alleged breaches of the injunctions (see, for example, Barclays Bank Plc v Citibank, N.A. [2024] EWHC 53 (Ch))
- acting for a major financial services client in getting injunctions against individuals alleged to have unlawfully taken from it confidential customer information, thereby restraining their use of the material, directing them to deliver-up devices holding it, and having it deleted from those devices — including bringing claims for damages and other forms of final relief
- acting for Standard Chartered in restoring dissolved companies to the register and into compulsory liquidation and then acting for the IPs — as part of a global asset tracing exercise to recover USD 1 billion of losses suffered by a consortium of Indian banks in an alleged global fraud (Standard Chartered v Registrar of Companies [2021] EWHC 1566 (Ch))
- acting for The Co-operative Bank Plc in defending multi-million pound claims brought by a prospective asset purchaser alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and alleged liability under an exclusivity agreement — including bringing a successful application for reverse summary judgment on parts of the claims (Astra Asset Management UK Limited v The Co-operative Bank Plc [2019] EWHC 897 (Comm))
- acting for BHL in successfully recovering sums that it paid by mistake under a deed of indemnity in favour of an invoice discounter, and a declaration no further sums were due, on the finding that the discounter had improperly levied charges under an agreement with its customer (BHL v Leumi ABL Limited [2017] EWHC 1871 (QB))
- Advising a lead consortium bank on recovering $700m from a massive cross-border fraud, including restoring dissolved entities and coordinating global asset-tracing efforts by their liquidators.
- Representing a global bank in recovering £13.7m lost through exploitation of automated payment systems, securing freezing orders, and managing contempt proceedings across 11+ reported judgments at first instance and on appeal.
- Pursuing a EUR 18m multi-jurisdictional dispute involving serious financial misconduct, urgent coordinated ex parte injunctive relief across several countries, and successful anti-suit injunctions to enforce arbitration agreements.
- Advising a statutory compensation scheme on recovery actions worth hundreds of millions, involving complex issues of private international law, property, and trusts.