Keith Thomas

Practice Areas

Keith focuses on complex and high-value commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on financial and banking disputes. Keith has recently led the high profile RBS Rights Issue Litigation to a successful conclusion on behalf of 313 major financial institutions.

Keith’s expertise is in banking and financial litigation, securities litigation, multi-jurisdictional and international disputes, fraud and asset recovery, private client and trust disputes.

Cases on which Keith has acted include the RBS Rights Issue Litigation where he advised 313 financial institutions on recovering their losses arising from RBS’s £12bn rights issue, the recovery from London institutions of monies for a US receiver of a collapsed hedge fund and a number of high profile Russian disputes being tried in London.

Career

Keith has a master’s degree in electronic systems engineering. After requalifying as a lawyer he trained and practised at CMS Cameron McKenna before joining Stewarts as a partner in 2010.

Professional Memberships

Keith is a member of the International Bar Association and the London Solicitors Litigation Association.

Publications

Keith has spoken on international securities litigation at the last two annual conferences of the International Corporate Governance Network and co-authored the English chapter of the handbook of the National Association of Pension Plan Attorneys.

Personal

Keith takes any opportunity to be outside whether that is skiing, sailing, road cycling or mountain biking in the South Downs.