About Tom
Tom Serafin is a Senior Associate in HFW’s Commercial Disputes team, specialising in complex, high-value cross-border litigation. His expertise focuses on fraud, asset recovery, enforcement, and insolvency-related disputes, with extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional litigation and asset tracing.
Tom acts for clients in disputes involving parties across the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, China, the Middle East, and a wide range of offshore jurisdictions. He frequently collaborates with investigators and legal teams in multiple jurisdictions, bringing a genuinely international and coordinated approach to complex commercial disputes.
His work includes defending multi-billion-dollar claims in the aviation insurance sector, enforcing English judgments against the worldwide assets of politically exposed or high-net-worth individuals, and obtaining recognition of foreign insolvency processes in England. Tom also advises on contentious and non-contentious issues arising in administration and liquidation processes.
Tom is qualified in England & Wales and Australia and holds full rights of audience in the senior civil courts of England. He is a contributor to the Lawyers Practice Manual Queensland, a leading practitioner resource. He is based in London and is fluent in Polish.
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