Tom Rudkin

Tom is an Partner in Farrer & Co's Reputation Management practice, and is also a member of the firm's Sports Group. Tom provides reputation management, contentious media and IP advice to a full range of the firm's clients, including individuals, corporates and institutions. He has experience advising both claimants and defendants on defamation, privacy, contentious data protection, cyber security, harassment, and copyright and trademark law. He works alongside communications advisers, investigative firms, and IT and cyber security specialists to help devise strategies on, and responses to, sensitive issues where the reputational risk is significant. Tom frequently advises sports organisations and individuals on contentious, regulatory and commercial matters. His clients include international and national sports governing bodies, as well as a number of professional sportsmen and women and other sports organisations. Tom's experience includes advising Farrer & Co's sports clients on various forms of dispute resolution (comprising litigation, arbitration at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and mediation), internal investigations, disciplinary and selection issues, and the drafting of key policies (such as those relating to anti-doping and the selection of athletes for major events). Tom has spent time in-house on two separate secondments at the Lawn Tennis Association. · Farrer & Co

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Tom Rudkin is a Partner at Farrer & Co in the firm's Reputation Management practice and a member of its Sports Group. He advises individuals, corporates and sports organisations on reputation and contentious media matters, intellectual property, privacy and data-protection issues, cyber-security incidents, and on sports disputes including litigation, CAS arbitration, internal investigations, disciplinary and anti-doping matters; he has completed secondments at the Lawn Tennis Association.

Practice areas

Reputation ManagementIntellectual PropertyPrivacy & Data ProtectionSports LawLitigationInternational ArbitrationInvestigationsCybersecurity

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England

Farrer & Co · Tom is an Partner in Farrer & Co's Reputation Management practice, and is also a member of the firm's Sports Group. Tom provides reputation management, contentious media and IP advice to a full range of the firm's clients, including individuals, corporates and institutions. He has experience advising both claimants and defendants on defamation, privacy, contentious data protection, cyber security, harassment, and copyright and trademark law. He works alongside communications advisers, investigative firms, and IT and cyber security specialists to help devise strategies on, and responses to, sensitive issues where the reputational risk is significant. Tom frequently advises sports organisations and individuals on contentious, regulatory and commercial matters. His clients include international and national sports governing bodies, as well as a number of professional sportsmen and women and other sports organisations. Tom's experience includes advising Farrer & Co's sports clients on various forms of dispute resolution (comprising litigation, arbitration at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and mediation), internal investigations, disciplinary and selection issues, and the drafting of key policies (such as those relating to anti-doping and the selection of athletes for major events). Tom has spent time in-house on two separate secondments at the Lawn Tennis Association.

England

Expertise

Sports organisations and athletesNational and international sports governing bodiesAnti-doping and athlete selection policyReputation risk and media strategyInternal investigations and disciplinary proceedingsCourt of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitration

Education

BA in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
GDL and LPC, BPP Professional Education

Admissions

Qualified as a solicitor (September 2013)