Expertise

Tom is an experienced litigator who has handled many complex commercial multi-party and multi-jurisdictional disputes.  Tom has particular expertise in:

• Domestic and international banking litigation;
• financial services litigation, including associated regulatory and compliance issues;
• fund or asset management litigation;
• pensions litigation;
• contractual disputes, including breach of warranty claims and share sale and purchase agreements; and
• intellectual property disputes.

Experience

• Riyad Bank -v- Ahli United Bank [2005] EWHC 279 (Comm)  – acting for the claimant in its successful breach of contract/professional negligence claim regarding the management of a Sharia compliant fund. (Commercial Court).
• Unilever Superannuation Trustees Ltd -v- Mercury Asset Management – acting for the claimant pension fund in the first major claim of its kind against a leading city fund manager.  The claim settled shortly before Judgment was due. (Commercial Court).
• Advising Deutsche Bank AG in relation to a dispute with the General Partner and Investment Manager of a private equity technology fund based in the Cayman Islands.
• Leofelis SA & Anr –v- Lonsdale Sports Ltd & Ors [2007] EWHC 451 (Ch) – acting for the claimant in its successful claim for breach of contract and misrepresentation and advising in relation to related proceedings in Germany and Belgium.
• Carlton Communications plc & Anr -v- The Football League [2002] EWHC 1650 (Comm) – acting for Carlton and Granada in the action that successfully established that neither of the claimants had guaranteed the liabilities of ONdigital (later known as ITVdigital) to the Football League.

Professional

Slaughter and May 1996 – 2005
Dorsey & Whitney MNP 2005 – 2008
LG 2008 to date

Professional Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales
London Solicitors’ Litigation Association
International Bar Association
Association of Pension Lawyers