Stephenson Harwood

Commercial Litigation

Tom is a managing associate in the fraud and asset recovery team where he advises on high value, multi-jurisdictional disputes. He has experience in a wide range of commercial and financial disputes before the English courts across a variety of sectors. Chambers & Partners UK has ranked Tom as an 'Associate to watch' in civil fraud for the last three years reporting that he is "the sort of person you want on your side in a complex matter".

Tom's practice is focussed on civil fraud, judgment enforcement and asset recovery. Most of his matters are international and often involve parallel litigation in multiple jurisdictions. Tom's clients include financial institutions, corporates, shareholders and high net worth individuals. His current cases include acting for the former shareholders of Yukos Oil Company in relation to the enforcement in England of a US$50+ billion arbitration award against the Russian Federation.

Prior to joining Stephenson Harwood, Tom trained and worked at a magic circle law firm in London for ten years. During that time, he did a client secondment to the dispute resolution team at an international bank in London and an internal secondment to the firm's Dubai office.