Tom is Managing Partner of Carey Olsen's Guernsey office and partner in the corporate and finance group. He specialises in private equity and capital markets transactions and advises clients on the structuring and establishment of closed-ended and open-ended collective investment schemes as well as their resulting downstream transactions and financings. He also advises on public and private mergers, acquisitions and schemes of arrangement predominantly in the financial services space.  

Tom acts for well known sponsors of private equity, large financial institutions and boutique and start up asset managers. He is also a director of a number of asset managers, private equity and venture capital funds.    

Tom is consistently listed in the International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers.

Tom began his career with a training contract at Norton Rose in 1998-2000. He qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in October 2000 and then joined the corporate finance team at Norton Rose in 2000-2002. He was in-house counsel at Morgan Stanley Investment Management Limited from 2002 to 2004. He joined Carey Olsen in August 2004 and was made partner in 2008. Tom was appointed Managing Partner of the Guernsey office in 2023.

Tom was a founder and first chairman of the Commercial Bar Association and was appointed as a non-voting member of the Board of Commerce & Employment within the States of Guernsey between 2012 and 2015.

Tom was Secretary and then Deputy Batonnier of the Guernsey Bar Council from 2012 to 2021.

Tom was elected as a member of the States Complaints Panel and Independent Review Board in 2021.

• Guernsey Funds: an overview
• Guernsey Authorised Funds
• Guernsey Funds and the AIFMD
• Hedge Funds in Guernsey
• Types of Fund Vehicles used in Guernsey
• Funds expertise: Carey Olsen Guernsey
• Guernsey funds: practical matters to bear in mind
• Table of Guernsey Fund Structures
• Migrating a company into Guernsey
• Guernsey Funds: registered or authorised - which to choose?
• Summary of Guernsey Taxation
• Guernsey Property Unit Trusts (GPUTs)
• Guernsey and ATAD III
• Carey Olsen increases market share as leading legal adviser to Guernsey funds industry
• Carey Olsen sponsors IBA 21st Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds
• Part II: Consumer credit and home finance
• Part III: Financial firm business
• A guide to the Lending, Credit and Finance (Bailiwick Of Guernsey) Law, 2022
• Part II: Unfair contract terms
• Part III: Virtual asset service providers
• Discretionary exemptions
• Private Equity Structure Analysis
• Trust Structure Analysis
• Bridge Finance and Litigation Funding Structure Analysis
• Family Loan Structure Analysis
• Buying out minority shareholders in Guernsey companies
• Carey Olsen is keynote sponsor of the Guernsey Funds Forum 2023
• Why choose Guernsey? Special considerations for Australian promoters
• A round-up of the recent updates affecting investment funds in Guernsey
• Carey Olsen advises Carey Commercial on its sale to Suntera Global
• Carey Olsen advises Sarnia Yachts on its acquisition by Praxis
• Carey Olsen appoints new managing partners in Guernsey and BVI
• Changes to the requirements for individuals acting as a director
• Securities tokenisation in Guernsey
• Quarterly round-up of the recent investment funds updates in Guernsey
• Guernsey's new Director Registration Regime
• Two Carey Olsen lawyers sworn in as Guernsey advocates
• Two Carey Olsen lawyers sworn in as Guernsey Advocates
• Carey Olsen lawyers recognised in latest IFLR1000 2023 rankings
• Carey Olsen lawyers recognised in latest IFLR1000 2023 rankings
• Carey Olsen confirmed as the leading offshore law firm by Chambers UK
• Tokenisation: The blockchain revolution for funds
• Carey Olsen named Guernsey Firm of the Year by Who's Who Legal