Tom Keevil
General Counsel and Company Secretary, Barratt Development
Tom joined Barratt as General Counsel and Company Secretary at the beginning of April 2011. Prior to that he was company secretary and general counsel of United Utilities . He was a senior legal adviser for Gallaher from 2000 to 2002 after 16 years with Simmons & Simmons, where he was made a partner in May 1991.
From 2002 until 2007 he was company secretary and general counsel of Gallaher Group Plc and a board appointed member of Gallaher’s corporate responsibility committee, managing the corporate affairs, legal and security and brand protection departments and acting as secretary to the Plc board and its principal committees.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an accredited mediator, and is a non-executive director of FMI and a member of its risk committee. He has also served as a non-executive director of the SRA and been a member of its Standards, Finance and Resources and Risk committees since 2009.