Team Member
Joined: 1998
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Tom’s practice focuses on taxation (including corporate and LLC mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations; partnership and LLC agreements and tax matters; and low-income housing and historic rehabilitation tax credits) and partnership and limited liability company law. Before joining the firm in 1998, Tom had been a partner with another law firm in Raleigh, an attorney-advisor at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C., and a CPA with a Big Eight accounting firm in Virginia. Tom has been actively involved with the N.C. Bar Association, as Chair of the Tax Section, a principal drafter of the most recent revisions to North Carolina’s partnership and LLC acts, a member of the LLC Act Revision Task Force, and a drafter and reviser of form documents for members of the Business Law Section (for LLCs). Tom received a B.S. in Commerce (accounting concentration) from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from the College of William & Mary, and an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University. He also attended the University of Exeter in England and the University of Grenoble in France.
