TOM COX QC

Admitted to practice 1994; Senior Counsel (now Queen's Counsel) 2013

Tom Cox was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia and in the High Court in 1994. After several years of practice in Adelaide, he passed the New York bar exam in 1997 and practised as a commercial solicitor in New York and Brussels from 1998 to 2004, specialising in private equity and venture capital work. Tom returned to South Australia to join the independent Bar in 2005. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2013.

Tom has a broad practice in commercial and civil litigation, including contractual, consumer protection, professional liability, corporations law and corporate insolvency matters. Additionally, Tom has significant experience in probate and family provision matters, coronial inquests, disciplinary proceedings and various types of appellate court matters.

He has appeared at first instance in the Supreme Courts of South Australia and Western Australia and in the Federal Court (sitting in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin), as well as in appeals to the Full Court of the South Australian Supreme Court, the Full Court of the Federal Court and the Western Australian Court of Appeal.

Tom holds law degrees from the University of Adelaide (LLB (Hons), 1994) and from Columbia University in New York (LLM, 1997) where he was a James Kent Scholar.