Brick Court Chambers

Tom is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers who specialises in commercial, fraud and competition litigation and arbitration. He has been described as a “superb advocate”, a “dream barrister” and someone who “can be trusted to go head to head against the silk on the other side". He is routinely instructed, both in his own right and sometimes led by senior silks, in most significant cases in his areas of expertise. For example he recently appeared in what has been described as the “world’s largest lawsuit”, in which he persuaded the English Commercial Court to set aside an US$11 billion arbitration award that had been procured through a deep-seated network of corruption in Nigeria. He has also just finished the 6-month trial of a claim against NMC by Ernst and Young, one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases. Many of his commercial cases involve allegations of fraud and corruption. Tom’s competition practice includes group actions, private damages claims and regulatory appeals. He has recently appeared in major cases involving the pharmaceuticals, banking, aviation and ‘big tech’ sectors, as well as a number of high profile cases concerning sports such as football and Formula 1.

Call: 2013

2012: BCL, Trinity College, University of Oxford (Distinction)

2011: BA Law, Robinson College, University of Cambridge (Double First)