Thomas Graham was called to the Bar in 1985. He has a wealth of advocacy experience, originally gained at the common law bar, and relishes the challenges of the court room. He has appeared in numerous cases in the Queens Bench and Chancery Divisions, and a substantial number in the Court of Appeal.

Thomas’s practice, almost entirely contentious, focuses on a core range of commercial chancery work, revolving around the issues commonly thrown up by business disputes – whether in the field of commercial, company, insolvency or partnership law. His commercial work includes purely contractual disputes, such as breach of warranty claims, sale of goods and supply of services, as well as insurance work and other Commercial Court claims. In company law he has particular strength in shareholder disputes, including minority shareholder actions and share ownership claims, as well as in claims between companies and their directors and employees, whether for breach of fiduciary duty or pursuant to contractual covenants. His practice in corporate and personal insolvency caters for the dispute involving the financially pressed business and individual. His partnership experience includes dissolution work in particular, as well as the application of the partnership model in commercial joint venture situations. In addition, he has specialist expertise in intellectual property law (copyright, breach of confidence, passing off) and in defamation, areas of law which often come into play in the context of commercial disputes. Within these practice areas, Thomas Graham has considerable experience of urgent interim relief, in particular in the form of freezing orders, search orders (and variants thereof), the appointment of provisional liquidators, and other interim injunctions.