Thomas Brown

Tom is a partner within Shoosmiths’ Fintech and Payments team with over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry leading in-house legal teams at credit card processor TSYS, payments services giant PayPal and global acquirer Worldpay. Tom has also worked in private practice advising financial services clients at UK law firms Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons and worked as a solicitor with Accenture. Tom is one of the UK’s leading digital payments and fintech legal experts and has worked on many of the largest and most complex fintech agreements and deals in recent years including the demerger of eBay and PayPal, the purchase of Braintree by PayPal, the rollout of PayPal Credit, PayPal One Touch and PayPal Working Capital, the launch of virtual card programs at PayPal and Worldpay, assisting several entities to obtain e-money institution licenses and other payment licenses in the UK, Singapore, Netherlands, Brazil, and Japan. Tom has also been on the executive managem