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Provided by Tom McPhail
Tom specialises in resolving domestic and international trust, estate and commercial disputes on behalf of HNW individuals, trustees, protectors and private businesses.
He regularly advises on a broad range of trust and estate applications, including trust restructurings, and is experienced in dealing with cases involving breaches of trust and fiduciary duty, civil fraud, professional negligence and complex jurisdictional issues. Tom also has experience of both bringing and defending committal proceedings.
Tom regularly writes for key industry publications. Recent contributions include:
“Undoing the irrevocable”, STEP Trust Quarterly Review, 18 June 2025, Issue 2
“Using Arbitration to Resolve Trust Disputes”, WealthBriefing, 4 March 2025
“Interpreting Wong: does the proper purpose rule have a future, or is it merely a facet of construction?”, Trusts & Trustees, Vol.30, Issue 2, March 2024 (with Toby Graham)
Provided by Chambers
Tom McPhail is a senior associate at Farrer who works on significant cross-border trust litigation with complex domicile questions and foreign tax issues.
Provided by Chambers
Tom is quite simply one of the brightest and most intelligent associates I have worked with. He is very detail-oriented.
Tom is very hard-working and good with the clients. He also has good judgement and is on top of everything. He is very clever and good with figures too.
Tom is quite simply one of the brightest and most intelligent associates I have worked with. He is very detail-oriented.
Tom is very hard-working and good with the clients. He also has good judgement and is on top of everything. He is very clever and good with figures too.