Bio

I am a Partner in the Corporate Team at Fieldfisher, specialising in mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions. Tom is a partner in Fieldfisher's Corporate Group and Co-Head of the firm's international Emerging Companies and Venture Capital group. He is a tech-focused VC and M&A lawyer, described by clients in 2022 as "exceptionally sharp" and "extremely diligent". Tom was ranked in Legal Week's 2019 "40 under 40: The Rising Stars in Private Equity" and described in Legal500 in 2023 as "a high quality, commercially-minded and market savvy lawyer". He is known for the volume of company-side mandates he works on in the UK market, working closely with founders and technology companies as they finance and scale their businesses. Tom also works with a growing number of leading venture capital funds, both in the UK, US and EU, on their equity investments into UK emerging companies. Tom also regularly acts for corporate acquirers on acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments, in addition to advising his large portfolio of growth company clients on bolt-on acquisitions and eventually exits, to both trade acquirers and private equity houses. Tom also regularly advises international growth companies on their launch in the UK and European markets, having advised Getir on its establishment of operations in the UK, including multiple other tech startups from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and other European jurisdictions on establishing their businesses in the UK.