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Keith Thomas

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Work Department

Securities Litigation 

Position

Head of the Securities Litigation department.

Keith focuses on complex and high-value commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on financial and banking disputes. Keith has recently led the high profile RBS Rights Issue Litigation to a successful conclusion on behalf of 313 major financial institutions.

Keith’s expertise is in banking and financial litigation, securities litigation, multi-jurisdictional and international disputes, fraud and asset recovery, private client and trust disputes.

Cases on which Keith has acted include the RBS Rights Issue Litigation where he advised 313 financial institutions on recovering their losses arising from RBS’s £12bn rights issue, the recovery from London institutions of monies for a US receiver of a collapsed hedge fund and a number of high profile Russian disputes being tried in London.

Career

Keith has a master’s degree in electronic systems engineering. After requalifying as a lawyer he trained and practised at CMS Cameron McKenna before joining Stewarts as a partner in 2010.

Keith has spoken on international securities litigation at the last two annual conferences of the International Corporate Governance Network and co-authored the English chapter of the handbook of the National Association of Pension Plan Attorneys.

Memberships

Keith is a member of the International Bar Association and the London Solicitors Litigation Association.

Personal

Keith takes any opportunity to be outside whether that is skiing, sailing, road cycling or mountain biking in the South Downs.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant

(Leading Individuals)

Keith Thomas  – Stewarts Law LLP

The highly regarded group actions offering at Stewarts Law LLP is jointly led by head of tax litigation David Pickstone, competition litigation head Kate Pollock and securities litigation head Keith Thomas. The team, which focuses on cases concerning securities, competition, tax, financial product mis-selling, consumer and data privacy, has recently been acting for multiple financial institutions in claims against Glencore – the firm has a track record of high-profile roles on a raft of other headline-making claims, including the Ingenious and Eclipse film scheme cases and Asda Stores Limited & Others v Mastercard in the Supreme Court.

London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail

Stewarts Law LLP fields ‘one of the top litigation teams in London’ and one that acts frequently for some of the largest international financial institutions, multi-national corporations, and high-net-worth individuals. The team has carved out a niche specialism in securities litigation, having represented shareholders in high-profile proceedings brought against Tesco, and similarly acting for institutional investors in relation to Glencore. Clive Zietman is a ‘superstar who has driven the team to success’ and leads the department, bringing 30 years of experience in large-scale litigation. ‘Tenacious, driven, and analytical’ Marc Jones, ‘smart, indefatigable and creative’ Fiona Gillett, and ‘impressive litigator’ Keith Thomas are key names to note at partner level, alongside Sean Upson and Lucy Ward.

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