Bio

Thomas Brooks is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Lewis Brisbois and is a member of the Banking & Finance, Corporate, Commercial Lending, and the Securities and Corporate Finance Practices. With more than 30 years of financial services regulatory practice, Tommy Brooks has represented a variety of commercial banks, thrift institutions, online lenders, fintech entities, money services businesses, consumer finance lenders and financial services trade associations. He has led a bank board’s internal investigation that led to the arrest and conviction for fraud of its president and chief lending officer. On behalf of a California financial trade association, he successfully advocated for owners of FDIC insured industrial banks to be exempt from Federal Reserve Board regulation. In recent years, Tommy Brooks has increasingly focused on providing guidance and advice to clients in the rapidly changing financial institution regulatory environment. He has advised state banking associations on the proper use of the federal regulators’ cybersecurity assessment tool, and has represented a financial services trade association in developing and obtaining approval by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners of the Viatical Settlements Model Act. Other emerging areas in which he has been active include cannabis financing and consumer financial services regulated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and, increasingly, state consumer regulatory counterparts. Education: Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Juris Doctor, 1969, AmJur Award in Insurance The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado Bachelor of Arts, 1966.