Tom Hagger is a partner and head of our Transactional team in Dubai. His practice spans our Funds & Asset Management, Banking & Corporate, Regulatory & Tax, and Digital Assets & Blockchain practice groups, allowing him to provide comprehensive advice across a broad range of transactional matters.
Tom has extensive experience advising on the full life cycle of investment funds, including pre-formation structuring, entity formation, preparation of key fund documents, ongoing regulatory and tax compliance, and other day-to-day issues faced by all types of investment funds, including distressed situations and restructurings
...Tom Hagger is a partner and head of our Transactional team in Dubai. His practice spans our Funds & Asset Management, Banking & Corporate, Regulatory & Tax, and Digital Assets & Blockchain practice groups, allowing him to provide comprehensive advice across a broad range of transactional matters.
Tom has extensive experience advising on the full life cycle of investment funds, including pre-formation structuring, entity formation, preparation of key fund documents, ongoing regulatory and tax compliance, and other day-to-day issues faced by all types of investment funds, including distressed situations and restructurings.
His banking and corporate practice sees him routinely advising leading onshore law firms, major international financial institutions, and listed and private companies on a range of financial products and corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general corporate governance.
Tom's regulatory practice focuses on advising clients on key offshore regulatory requirements, including anti-money laundering (AML), the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), and economic substance (ES) obligations.
Another key area of Tom's practice is Digital Assets and Blockchain, where he regularly advises clients on a broad range of subjects, including investments in both early-stage and late-stage blockchain businesses and the establishment and launch of blockchain and virtual asset funds. He also has experience advising Web3 clients on establishing and maintaining offshore structures to support the growth and development of their ecosystems, including the full range of available offshore solutions and, in particular, the use of foundation companies to oversee and develop blockchain protocols.
Tom's experience across these practice areas has been developed in multiple jurisdictions, having practised in London, the Cayman Islands, and Dubai. This has allowed him to work with a wide range of clients and has helped him develop his ability to tailor his advice to appropriately meet each client's particular needs.
Before joining Harneys in 2025, Tom practised at another offshore law firm in the Cayman Islands and later in Dubai. Tom began his career at Travers Smith in London, where he completed his training contract and qualified into the Financial Services & Markets department.
