Bio

J. Thomas Cookson is a partner in the Miami office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he is a member of the Corporate Practice Group. A Martindale-Hubbell AV®-rated attorney, Tom has been recognized among The Best Lawyers in America since 2009 and included on such lists as the South Florida Legal Guide’s Top Lawyers and South Florida Business Journal’s Best of the Bar. He has more than 30 years of experience structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, debt and equity financings, and securities offerings. Tom served as a Law Clerk to Judge Albert Henderson in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upon graduating from the College of William & Mary School of Law.