Thomas Walsh

Practice Areas

Thomas Walsh is the co-head of Clifford Chance's Greater China arbitration practice and head of its Korean disputes practice.

He has a particular focus on private equity / M&A disputes and tech disputes having been involved in some of the largest and most complex disputes in APAC. He acts as both counsel and arbitrator under all of the major institutional (HKIAC, SIAC, LCIA, ICC, CIETAC etc) and ad hoc (UNCITRAL) rules.

He is appointed to HKIAC’s Council and Appointments Committee, the chair of ICC HK's Nomination Committee, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Career

Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA) 2001

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2007

Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong 2011

Admitted as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the Republic of Korea 2013

Joined Clifford Chance 2014

Head of Korean disputes practice 2014

Partner since 2019