Tom Stanley is a senior managing director at K2 Integrity in London and head of the firm’s global asset recovery practice. With over 14 years’ experience in litigation support, dispute resolution, and asset tracing, Tom assists clients across a wide range of industries in locating assets ahead of litigation proceedings and in support of judgment enforcements. His clients include multinational corporations, governments, leading law firms, and litigation funders.
Tom’s litigation support expertise is reflected in his ranking in Chambers’ 2024 Litigation Support Guide for Asset Tracing & Recovery (Global Investigations), where clients described him as “[their] first choice for this kind of work” and as an “insightful and practical leader” with a consistent ability to produce “thorough and clear reports which we’ve used in court.” K2 Integrity’s asset recovery practice is also ranked in Chambers and was commended for being “extremely responsive” and for “bringing insights which exceed our expectations.” Clients praised the team for being “thorough, creative, and capable of handling and unpacking complex holding structures of target assets.”
Tom regularly advises clients in complex commercial disputes, including corporations and sovereign states facing fraud and asset recovery issues, and has particular expertise in developing investigative strategies in support of litigation, arbitration, and asset recovery. Tom and the asset recovery team are experts at gathering evidence in support of these disputes and assisting their clients with the deployment of this evidence to recover their funds efficiently and successfully.
Over his career, Tom has accumulated a wealth of experience in the corporate intelligence and investigations industry. Notable cases include assisting with the identification of assets and subsequent enforcement of an arbitral award for a private client against a Balkan state, the identification of over USD 500 million in assets embezzled by two individuals from a bank they previously owned in the CIS, and supporting a state-owned enterprise in the global enforcement of a USD 5 billion arbitration award against a sovereign state.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Tom was a freelance investigations consultant working for a family office and other private clients in London and has also lived and worked in Madrid. He was educated at Exeter University and holds a B.A. in English literature.
