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Tom Braithwaite
Position
Tom practises in all areas of chancery commercial work, with a particular emphasis on:
- Property Litigation
- Partnership – Professional partnership disputes, LLPs and dissolutions
- Commercial litigation
- Company & Insolvency
- Wills & Trusts, including offshore trusts
- Professional Negligence – in these and other fields
Career
Year of Call: 1998 (L); judicial assistant, Court of Appeal 1999.
Languages
French (working knowledge).
Memberships
COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; Property Bar Association.
Education
Clifton; Jesus College, Cambridge (1997 MA Double First).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Members of Serle Court handle a range of partnership and LLP cases, from high court advocacy to advice on regulatory compliance for a wide range of clients in professional services. In resolving disputes within partnerships and LLPs, John Machell KC and Thomas Braithwaite are experienced in high court litigation, with Machell KC having acted for a group of defendants in Armstrong v Taylor and Rockpool Investments LLP. Jennifer Haywood is notable for her practice as a full-time partnership arbitrator.
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Tom Braithwaite – Serle Court ‘Tom is extremely robust in court, and provides advice in a clear and unfussy way.’
London Bar > Company
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Braithwaite – Serle Court ‘Tom is super-smart and experienced, his advocacy is excellent in an understated yet intelligent way, and he clearly has the ear of the judge.’
Serle Court is ‘a quality set that rightly deserves its first-class reputation‘. The team garners praise for being ‘extremely bright and able with a fantastic skill set for company work, especially with an insolvency, fraud or trusts angle‘. Recent work for the group includes Jonathan Adkin KC appearing in Re: Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd, an ongoing, high-value shareholder appraisal action dispute in Bermuda, while Philip Marshall KC is acting in a major injunction case concerning a NASDAQ listed company in the Cayman Islands. Among the juniors, David Drake is sought after for his experience in handling unfair prejudice petitions and claims for breaches of directors’ duties, and Tom Braithwaite‘s workload includes claims in insolvency.