Tom Rainsbury

Practice Areas

Civil fraud; POCA & asset forfeiture; banking and finance; crypto-assets; financial services; sanctions; administrative and public law; financial crime

Career

University College London, LLB (First Class)

University of Cambridge, Commercial LLM

Tom has a busy advisory and litigation practice in the above fields.

He has particular expertise in claims involving allegations of fraud, including APP fraud, advance fee fraud, mortgage fraud, ponzi schemes, procurement fraud, and bribery and corruption.

He has a thriving judicial review practice, particularly in cases at the intersection between public and commercial law and claims against the FOS, FCA and FSCS.

He is developing a discrete practice in sanctions work, which is complemented by his strong background in public law and proceeds of crime.

As a member of the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel and the SFO’s Panel for Proceeds of Crime and International Assistance, he regularly acts for the NCA, SFO, DPP and HMRC.

Recent cases: Hajiyeva [2018] 1 WLR 5887 and [2020] 2 All ER (Comm) (first application for unexplained wealth order); Javadov [2022] 1 All ER 730 (open justice in account freezing order hearings); Briedis [2021] EWHC 3155 (Admin) (whether crypto-assets are property under the proceeds of crime legislation); MAS5 [2022] EWHC 1979 (Admin) (judicial review of decision by the FOS to investigate historic variations to SVRs); and Petrosaudi [2022] EWHC 920 (Admin) (prohibition order over a significant arbitral award held in the CFO).

Professional Memberships

ALBA, FSLA, LCLCBA, YFLA

Publications

Administrative Court Digest, Editor

Mitchell, Taylor and Talbot on Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime, Contributor