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Thomas Graham

Call: 1985

Tom’s advocacy skills are second to none. He gets the job done in court. Chambers UK Bar, 2017
He is a fantastic advocate who has a very calm and collected approach but can turn up the heat when necessary.Chambers UK Bar, 2016
Clients love him as he is easy to deal with and delivers the goods in court. Chambers UK Bar, 2015

Overview
Thomas Graham is an enormously experienced and effective commercial chancery barrister who relishes the cut and thrust of the courtroom.

He has appeared in numerous cases in the Chancery Division, Commercial Court, Queen’s Bench Division and Court of Appeal, as well as in commercial arbitrations.

Thomas’s core practice focuses on business disputes, in the commercial, company, insolvency and partnership fields.

His Commercial practice includes purely contractual disputes, e.g. arising from business sales or from commercial contracts, frequently with an intellectual property element. He also handles fraud claims in a business context.

In Company law he has a particular strength in shareholder disputes, particularly minority shareholder actions (including for unfair prejudice) and share ownership disputes, and claims between companies and their directors, for breach of fiduciary duty, confidentiality and contract.
Company & Partnership
Typical work includes:
- Minority shareholder claims for unfair prejudice;
- Derivative claims by minority shareholders on behalf of companies against controlling wrongdoers;
- Just and equitable winding-up;
- Claims by companies against directors for breach of fiduciary duty (including business diversion and fraud), breach of covenant, and breach of commercial confidentiality;
- Claims to beneficial ownership of business;
- Business partnership claims with company elements;
- Insolvency applications.
Recent cases include:

A range of unfair prejudice petitions involving quasi-partnerships, breaches of shareholder agreements/understandings, breaches of good faith, including by exclusion and abuse of dividends, and breaches of fiduciary duty;
- Shareholder claims for breach of fiduciary duties owed direct to shareholders;
- Fraud claims by companies against directors
- Appeal of permission granted to administrators to sell assets free of security, including breach of confidentiality embargo on draft judgment.
Other cases of interest have included High Court trials over beneficial ownership of company shares (Singh v Anand; Hoyer Miller v Brooks).
Insolvency
Typical work includes:
- Minority shareholder claims for unfair prejudice;
- Derivative claims by minority shareholders on behalf of companies against controlling wrongdoers;
- Just and equitable winding-up;
- Claims by companies against directors for breach of fiduciary duty (including business diversion and fraud), breach of covenant, and breach of commercial confidentiality;
- Claims to beneficial ownership of business;
- Business partnership claims with company elements;
- Insolvency applications.
Recent cases include:

A range of unfair prejudice petitions involving quasi-partnerships, breaches of shareholder agreements/understandings, breaches of good faith, including by exclusion and abuse of dividends, and breaches of fiduciary duty;
- Shareholder claims for breach of fiduciary duties owed direct to shareholders;
- Fraud claims by companies against directors
- Appeal of permission granted to administrators to sell assets free of security, including breach of confidentiality embargo on draft judgment.
Other cases of interest have included High Court trials over beneficial ownership of company shares (Singh v Anand; Hoyer Miller v Brooks).
Qualifications/education
- Cambridge University MA (Law) (1984)
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- COMBAR
- London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
Languages
- French (to A-level)
- Spanish (to A-level)
What the directories say
“Tom’s advocacy skills are second to none. He gets the job done in court.”

Chambers UK Bar 2017

“He is a fantastic advocate who has a very calm and collected approach but can turn up the heat when necessary.”

Chambers UK Bar 2016

“Clients love him as he is easy to deal with and delivers the goods in court.”

Chambers UK Bar 2015