Thomas Graham

Summary

Thomas Graham is an enormously experienced and effective barrister specialising in commercial and company law. He practises from highly ranked New Square Chambers. His core practice focusses 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. In Company law he has a particular strength in shareholder disputes and claims between companies and their directors.

Specialist areas of law include

Company Law
Contract Law
Insolvency & Bankruptcy
Money Claims & Debt
Partnership Disputes
Shareholder Disputes

Profile description

Thomas Graham is ranked in Chambers UK Bar for Chancery:Commercial work. "He is a fantastic advocate who has a very calm and collected approach but can turn up the heat when necessary" (Chambers UK Bar 2015). "Clients love him as he is easy to deal with and delivers the goods in court" (Chambers UK Bar 2015). "His style of drafting is very sophisticated" (Chambers UK Bar 2016). "He works very, very hard on his cases. He doesn't fear hard work and does all-nighters" (Chambers UK Bar 2016).

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.

Commercial Law: typical work includes: disputes over Business Contracts, Joint Venture agreements, Business Sale Agreements (including Breach of Warranty claims), Media Contracts, Building Contracts, and contracts for the Sale of Goods or Supply of Services, including financial services; Breach of Commercial Confidentiality; disputed Compromise Agreements; Insurance claims; Passing Off claims; Fraud in a business context.

Company Law: minority shareholder claims for Unfair Prejudice (s.994 Companies Act 2006); Derivative Claims by minority shareholders agasint wrongdoers in control of the company; Just and Equitable winding-up (EG for companies which are deadlocked or whose objects have been achieved) ; claims between companies and Directors, EG for breach of dicudiary duty (including business diversion and fraud), breach of covenant, and breach of commercial confidentiality; claims for beneficial ownership of shares; business partnership claims; Insolvency applications.

For a fiull profile see http://www.newsquarechambers.co.uk/barristers/thomas-graham

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