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Tom Cox

Position
Principal Associate
Career
Tom Cox advises corporate and private clients who find themselves in commercial dispute. He has considerable experience of different disputes across a variety of sectors, including shareholder disputes, supply chain disputes, fraud claims, warranty claims, agency commission claims, unfair prejudice petitions, jurisdictional challenges and claims for injunctive relief.
Tom prides himself on providing clear legal advice, and on working hard for clients to achieve the best possible result.
Over the past six years Tom has been successfully involved in three heavyweight trials, including the high-profile case of Holyoake v Candy & Ors, for which the team was shortlisted for ‘Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year’ at the British Legal Awards 2018. In addition to those trials and many other first instance hearings, Tom also has significant appellate experience, having been involved in cases that have gone to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
Testimonials for Tom in the Legal 500 directory include that he “handles clients extremely well”; “is very hard-working, takes on responsibility and gets on top of everything”; and “will move effortless on to being a partner and rightly so”.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
‘A go-to firm for mid-tier commercial litigation matters’, Gowling WLG‘s practice is highly experienced in large international and domestic commercial disputes, in particular in the Chancery and Commercial Courts. The team’s core practice areas are post-M&A claims, and shareholder, supply chain, and corporate control and joint venture disputes. It also routinely acts in royalty and termination-related claims. The firm’s sector expertise covers automotive, aerospace, life sciences, financial services, and food and beverage. James Sidwell is ’exactly the person clients want in command of complex litigation‘. Catherine Naylor focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional cases and Andrew Smith‘s caseload encompasses contract terminations, economic torts, legal professional privilege, misfeasance and guarantees. The second line of experienced practitioners includes ‘exceptional litigator’ Tom Cox, a specialist in automotive, aviation, energy and life sciences-related disputes. Verity Barker represents trustees, fiduciaries and multinational companies in negligence actions and asset recovery matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Environment
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Real estate > Planning
- Transport > Rail
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Risk advisory > ESG
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport