Tom is a Member in the firm's Boston office, where he managed the Corporate & Securities Section for seven years. His practice deals with business, finance, and investment-related areas. Tom focuses on financial and investment services and products, public and private fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and corporate and higher education finance transactions, as well as business counseling. He represents U.S. and foreign private and publicly held corporations, universities, institutional investors, and public and private investment funds and their management. Tom advises clients on public offerings and private placements of both equity and debt securities, and acquisitions and dispositions of enterprises and strategic alliances. He also counsels clients in connection with their organization, management, and long- and short-term legal and business and financial planning strategies. Before joining the firm, Tom served as a law clerk to the Honorable Walter R. Mansfield in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He appears regularly as a panelist in continuing legal education programs, having chaired the Massachusetts program on the responsibilities of corporate directors. His board service includes LifePlans, Inc., a provider of consulting assessment and management services to the long-term care insurance industry, and Kobrick Funds, LLC. He is a Trustee of Wheelock College, where he has served as Chair of the Finance Committee and as Treasurer, and he has served as Chair of the Permanent School Accommodations Committee for the Town of Wellesley. Tom is admitted to practice in Massachusetts. His committee service includes the Corporate and Securities Law Committees of the Boston Bar Association and the Committee on New Developments in Business Financing of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Massachusetts and International Bar Associations. Tom received his B.A. from Trinity College (1965), where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1968). Industries Education Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing Venture Capital and Emerging Companies |