Bio

Tom Litz is a veteran M&A and corporate finance attorney who provides clients with common-sense solutions to address complex transactional issues. He chairs Thompson Coburn's Corporate Department and also serves on the Firm's Management and Executive Committees. Drawing on his more than 35 years of experience, Tom leads transactions across the country for companies in a wide range of industries and geographies, including acquisitions and divestitures involving strategic parties and private equity sponsors. Tom takes a solution-oriented approach to transactions and marshals the cross-discipline resources of the Firm — including tax, employee benefits, intellectual property and environmental advice — to execute challenging transactions and help clients anticipate and effectively manage risk. Tom represents clients in a variety of corporate finance transactions, including venture capital and private equity investments and institutional debt and equity financings. He has also counseled clients involved in offensive and defensive shareholder activist efforts. Tom has extensive experience representing institutional investors such as pension systems and endowments with their exposure to alternative investments, as well as investment managers, venture capital funds, and private equity sponsors. As part of this very active practice, Tom has unique experience advising public employee retirement systems and endowments and counseling them on evolving market trends. For all corporate clients, Tom provides regulatory advice on the constantly evolving securities laws and rules affecting public and private companies, institutional investors and managers.