Tom has a diverse practice specialising in the most serious and complex business and regulatory crime matters for a range of corporate and individual clients.
His work spans multinational financial crime investigations, bribery and corruption, fraud and money laundering, corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter investigations, health and safety, fire safety, food safety, environmental protection, inquests and inquiries.
Tom’s matters often involve large volumes of complex evidence and difficult technical and legal issues. Tom’s forensic and creative approach has helped clients in the most difficult circumstances successfully defend prosecutions and often avoid being charged.
Tom’s clients range from multinationals and major utilities businesses to SME’s, directors and managers, HNW individuals, professionals in finance, medicine, law and property.
Cases:
- Successfully defending a corporate in the rail sector in relation to a fatal accident investigation by the British Transport Police and Office of Rail and Road
- Successfully defending individuals in a multinational ‘cum-ex’ fraud and money laundering investigation in the UK and other European jurisdictions, involving related UK civil proceedings
- Successfully defending a fire safety consultancy following a prosecution brought by a Fire Authority including obtaining a defence costs order following a finding of ‘starkly improper’ conduct by the Fire Authority
- Successfully defending a fertilizer business and directors from an Environment Agency investigation for allegedly operating an unpermitted waste site on the basis that it was not waste
- Acting for individuals in Metropolitan Police investigations concerning the Grenfell Tower fire and Post Office Horizon, and in relation to related Inquiries
- Acting for a medical practitioner in the Ian Paterson inquests
- Acting for a corporate in a bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office
- Acting for a corporate in a multi-agency investigation concerning overlapping allegations of fraud and regulatory breaches
Publications:
- ICLG: Corporate Investigations Laws and Regulations 2026 (with Richard Reichman, John Binns, Anoushka Warlow)
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Waste Packaging Fraud: Investigations and Prosecution Risks
Food Safety Risks for Food Businesses: How Not to be Prosecuted (with Richard Reichman and Christina Josiphedes) - Food safety enforcement: why ‘proportionate’ often feels like Russian roulette (The Grocer)
- Getting Corporates in the Dock: senior manager test in the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 (New Law Journal)
- Corporate criminal liability reforms heighten UK ESG risks (Forward Law Review)
- Lexology: Government Investigations 2026 (with Michael Drury)
- Corporate crime and the senior manager test (Solicitors Journal)
- Without inquests, wrongful assisted deaths may slip through the net (The Times)
- Costs Awarded Against a Fire and Rescue Service for a Prosecution Case That “Should Never Have Been Started” (Expert Witness)
- Court Backlog Could Alter Work Safety Enforcement Policies (Law360) (with Olivia Dwan)
- Corporate culture and how to prevent bribery, fraud and other economic crimes (Solicitors Journal)
- Learning lessons from worker’s weir drowning (SHP)
- Assuming Guilt? (New Law Journal)
- We Need to Talk About Criminal Liablity
- End crown immunity to save lives (The Times)
- Responding to Fire Safety Enforcement and Prohibition Notices
- Responding to a Criminal Regulatory Investigation for Serious Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences in the Workplace
- Responding to construction accidents and dangerous occurrences in the workplace (Construction News)
- Cum-ex tax fraud: the difficulties and dilemmas in pinning blame (GRC World Forums)
Professional Memberships
- Fraud Lawyers Association
- Health & Safety Lawyers Association
- UK Environmental Lawyers Association
- The Law Society