Thomas M. Gaa

Thomas M. Gaa has practiced law for nearly 30 years in the area of business reorganizations and workouts, creditor-debtor rights, acquisition and sale of businesses and assets, and commercial law, with an emphasis on high technology and cross-border insolvency, credit and collection issues. Mr. Gaa has lectured on business reorganizations, technology issues in bankruptcy, and cross border insolvency and credit issues before local bar associations, the State Bar of California, the State Bar of Nevada, and the American Bar Association, as well as trade groups. Mr. Gaa authored "Harmonization of International Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Is It Necessary? Is It Possible?" in The International Lawyer, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1993 and was a contributing author for the Annual Review of Current Developments in the area of International Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy for 1996, published in The International Lawyer, Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer, 1997, and for 1998, published in The International Lawyer, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer, 1999.

Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi. Member: Task Force on Claims and Task Force on Corporate Entities, Transnational Insolvency Project of the American Institute, 1997; Advisory Committee on Private International Law, U.S. Department of State, Legal Advisors Office (1995). Advisory Committee Study Group on Cross-Border Insolvency, U.S. Department of State Office of Legal Advisor, 1997.