Areas Of Practice
Litigation and advice in the fields of Company Law, Corporate Fraud, Insolvency, Commercial Litigation, Public Law.
Alastair's recent experience has included:
- Company law
- s459 unfair prejudice: Junior to Christopher Harrison on behalf of a respondent/cross petitioner in multi-million pound action.
- Mergers and acquisitions: Providing advice and transactional support in a major acquisition, including advice on the cancellation of bearer shares.
- International commercial law: Junior to John Brisby QC and Richard Hill in major ongoing contractual dispute in the tobacco industry.
- Sale of goods: Obtained ex-parte injunction in the High Court in a sale of goods dispute concerning questions of agency and title.
- Economic torts: Acting for a co-defendant in a claim in economic torts for alleged assistance in breaches of restrictive covenants in an employment contract.
- Unlawful distraint: Acting on behalf of bailiffs in defending a number of claims for unlawful distraint.
- Corporate insolvency: numerous cases including contested winding-up petitions, injunctions to restrain presentation or advertisement of winding-up petitions, and actions on behalf of a liquidator to recover company assets.
- Personal insolvency: a range of instructions including obtaining bankruptcy orders, and acting in proceedings for a possession and sale order.
- Competition: Working for the Office of Fair Trading on a major cartel investigation.
Commercial law and litigation
Insolvency
Public Law
Languages
Working knowledge of French
Academic
MA King’s College, Cambridge
CPE University of Birmingham
BVC (Outstanding), Inns of Court School of Law
Lord Mansfield Major Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
Lord Haldane Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
Kennedy Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
Hardwicke Award, Lincoln’s Inn
Buchanan Prize for BVC results, Lincoln’s Inn
Blackstone Chambers Mooting Champion, Inns of Court School of Law
Allen & Overy Camm Cup Mooting Champion and Lady Barber Prize for Mooting, University of Birmingham
Professional
Member of the Commercial Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association, Administrative Law Bar Association and the Bar European Group
Notes
Alastair Tomson spent almost six years in business consultancy with a company which he co-founded, and therefore has practical experience both of the commercial world and of running a business. He was a member of a regional committee of the Institute of Directors between 2001 and 2002.
He is currently completing a Master of Laws by thesis in the field of Private International Law, in particular anti-suit injunctive relief.