Gatehouse Chambers

Tom is a commercial barrister who specialises in three areas: civil fraud; company and insolvency disputes; and construction disputes (including associated professional negligence and insurance).

Tom was junior counsel for the main defendant group in the main trial of Skatteforvaltningen (Danish Customs and Tax Authority) v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors, led by Nigel Jones KC, Sarah McCann, Lisa Freeman (of Furnival Chambers), Emily Betts, Miguel Henderson, and Alice Whyte. Tom’s team’s clients were a hedge fund manager, his wife, and his corporate entities, who were all alleged to have perpetrated a £1.4bn fraud against the Danish state through complex share trading. The trial ran from 9 April 2024 to 11 April 2025, which is believed to be the longest trial in the history of the commercial court. The case was listed as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2024.

Tom is equally happy acting as sole counsel. He acts unled in multi-day trials, and regularly appears in all manner of interim applications in both the High Court and County Court.

Prior to pupillage, Tom worked for a Legal Tech company where he taught a machine learning programme to recognise different types of contractual terms. The programme is used by M&A lawyers at leading firms to undertake due diligence more quickly and more accurately.

Tom studied Law at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he was elected JCR President and won a college prize for his performance in finals. He was awarded an advocacy scholarship and graded Outstanding on the Bar course.

Call: 2021

Tom studied Law at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he was elected JCR President and won a college prize for his performance in finals. He was awarded an advocacy scholarship and graded Outstanding on the Bar course.

In his spare time, Tom enjoys playing, watching and talking about cricket.