Simons Muirhead Burton
Tom Mayhew is a Partner at Simons Muirhead Burton LLP, having joined the firm in August 2023. Previously, Tom held various roles at Fragomen from April 2015 to July 2023, including Manager (Solicitor), Senior Associate, and Associate. Tom served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Mary Catherine Cuff at the Supreme Court of New Jersey from September 2013 to August 2014, focusing on significant cases in corporate law and providing support in opinion writing and legal memoranda. Additional experience includes working as a Research Assistant at Wake Forest University School of Law, where Tom supported faculty research on international law and statutory interpretation. Tom completed a Judicial Externship at the North Carolina Business Court in 2012 and interned at J.P. Morgan in 2008. Tom holds a Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and German Language and Literature from Villanova University.
Simons Muirhead Burton
Established in Soho in 1971 as specialists in civil liberties, music and criminal law, Simons Muirhead Burton is now a multi-disciplined law firm offering clients advice and representation across a broad range of legal service areas. We remain in Soho where we offer our clients an accessible, responsive, efficient service. Our people are a mixture of homegrown stars and ex-City practitioners, all of whom combine to provide a first-class service to our clients. We have an excellent reputation for work in the media sector (both contentious and non-contentious matters), employment, crime, property and commercial and corporate law. Through our specialist expertise, and perceptive outlook, we are proud of a strong reputation that stretches internationally. We were the first UK legal practice to establish a dedicated pro bono team focusing on human rights issues; that team, the Death Penalty Project, has since won multiple awards for its work. Razi Mireskandari became Managing Partner on 1 April 2010.