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Tom is a partner and leads the Finance Disputes team in London.

Tom has over 20 years’ experience of litigating high value and complex disputes with a particular focus on banking and finance disputes. Tom is ranked as a "Leading Individual" for banking litigation in the legal directories.

In 2017, Tom was seconded to a large UK bank where he worked on a range of high profile matters including a substantial remediation scheme, follow on litigation against the bank and parallel regulatory investigations, together with more “business as usual” claims.

Tom regularly handles large scale cross-border disputes involving High Court proceedings or international arbitration. Tom also acts for international and domestic insolvency practitioners in pursuing claims on behalf of insolvent estates. Since becoming a partner in 2011, Tom has strong experience of advising banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of contentious issues; civil fraud claims; joint venture disputes; claims regarding directors duties; and applications for interim remedies including freezing injunctions.

Awards & Recognitions
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    “Tom is exceptionally involved in all details and is always on top of issues….a great strategist.”
    Legal 500, 2024
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    "a thoughtful and commercial litigator with an excellent understanding of the market and its commercial imperatives” and “a stand out partner".
    Legal 500, 2023
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    Tom Dane is ranked as a leading individual for banking litigation and described as an “excellent litigator”
    Legal 500, 2020
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    Tom Dane is recommended and “brutally efficient”.
    Legal 500, 2017

Relevant experience

  • Various lenders in relation to the strategic defence of high volume claims for secret commissions.
  • UK bank in defending a GBP 300m claim brought via Commercial Court proceedings.
  • Board of directors of an issuer of a USD 30m Initial Coin Offering regarding a potential group action by claimant investors.
  • Turkish company and directors in relation to Commercial Court proceedings brought by eleven hedge funds alleging deceit in relation to a USD 200m bond issue.
  • International bank in relation to an expert determination.
  • Liquidators of a UK company in relation to multi-million pound claims against former directors.
  • Investment bank in relation to a Stockholm Chamber of Commerce arbitration.
  • Russian clients in relation to a dispute arising from the multi-million dollar financing of a diamond business (Commercial Court trial and LCIA arbitration).
  • High net worth individual in relation to a dispute regarding multi-million dollar loan agreements and a family trust involving parallel proceedings in England, BVI, St Kitts & Nevis and St Vincent & Grenadines.
  • UK based wealth management company in defending various claims advanced by high net worth clients.
  • Public limited company in relation to an investigation by the Insolvency Service.
  • Various banks on disputes arising from commercial and retail banking operations such as remediation programmes, breach of mandate claims, and defending claims involving allegations of mis-selling and fraud.  Tom has been seconded full time as a partner to a major UK bank and so has good knowledge of the inner workings of financial institutions.
  • Financial institution in relation to its claim for over EUR 14m against a German listed entity relating to commission due for introducing a significant hedge fund investor.
  • US Government Agency in relation to securing over USD 100m of assets held in London financial institutions as a result of alleged cyber hacking perpetrated by European defendants in support of ongoing US legal proceedings.
  • The Swiss liquidators of the Petroplus Group on numerous English law issues arising out of a USD 2bn facility agreement and the cross-border insolvency of the group, including pursuing claims before the English High Court.
  • Italian bank in relation to its claim against another bank for mis-selling a EUR 50m structured note which included exposure to the first loss tranche of a synthetic CDO.

Education

  • 2000 – LPC, Nottingham Law School (Distinction)
  • 1999 – LLB, University of Nottingham, Nottingham
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