Tom is a partner in our Corporate Group and a member of our Financial Institutions Group. He has a broad corporate, commercial and transactional practice supporting financial institutions, with a particular focus on the insurance sector. This covers M&A, corporate reorganisations, insurance and reinsurance arrangements, de-risking transactions, portfolio transfers, insurance regulation and general corporate advice.
Tom is recognised as 'Up and Coming' in Chambers ('Insurance: Non-Contentious') and a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in Legal 500 ('Insurance: Corporate and Regulatory’).
He has advised:
- Aviva on:
- the acquisition of AIG Life Limited from Corebridge Financial
- its strategic response to COVID-19 business interruption matters
- various risk transfer and reinsurance transactions, including the £5bn de-risking of the Aviva Staff Pension Scheme
- Legal & General on:
- risk transfer transactions including its £4.6 billion buy-in with Ford pension schemes and its £4.8 billion buy-in for with the Boots pension scheme
- various longevity and funded reinsurance transactions
- the sale of its mature savings business to Reassure
- Prudential on:
- the demerger of its UK & Europe business (now M&G plc)
- its US$2bn share buyback programme
- Allianz on its acquisition of the general insurance business of Legal & General
- Zurich on its recommended acquisition of Beazley plc
- Pension Insurance Corporation on reinsurance arrangements
- Natwest on its acquisition of Evelyn Partners, a leading UK wealth management business
- Pollen Street Capital and its portfolio company Markerstudy on bolt-on acquisitions of BGL Insurance, Lloyd’s broker Clegg Gifford & Co and insurer Tradex
- corporates on significant risk transfer transactions, including:
- Intact on the £6.5 billion derisking of RSA’s two main defined benefit pension schemes with PIC
- Tata Steel on derisking transactions of the British Steel Pension Scheme totalling £7.5 billion with Legal & General
- Whitbread on the £680 million derisking of the Whitbread Group Pension Fund with Standard Life
"Tom is a partner who can anticipate our needs. He was very good at highlighting strategic issues." Chambers UK 2026
"We valued Tom’s subject matter expertise, responsiveness and ability to highlight the risks that really matter, and how to mitigate them." Chambers UK 2026