Currently based in Reed Smith's Pittsburgh office, Tom served as Senior U.S. Partner in the London office during 2001, and again from 2004 until August 2007. He also served as Senior U.S. Partner in the Hong Kong office for 15 months from September 2007.

Tom's practice is devoted to corporate finance with special emphasis on acquisitions and dispositions, and transactional activity. Tom has advised clients in the acquisition or disposition of publicly and privately owned businesses engaged in virtually every type of financial institution activity, including commercial banking, equipment leasing, financial asset servicing, fund administration, human resources consulting and outsourcing, insurance, investment advisory, investment banking, mortgage banking and mutual fund management. In addition, he has also advised on strategic transactions for clients in the food products, health care, natural gas generation and distribution, solid waste disposal and steel industries. In the past few years, many of these transactions have had significant cross-border aspects.

In these and other activities, Tom frequently advises Boards of Directors on a variety of subjects, including their fiduciary duties under state and federal law, and their obligations and those of the companies they serve under Sarbanes-Oxley and related matters.

In the corporate finance area, Tom acted as special counsel to U.S., Canadian and British bank holding companies in the structuring, negotiation, documentation and closing of the off-shore securitization of highly leveraged loans (HLTs) sold by the banks to a special-purpose Netherlands corporation. Previously, he led a team of Reed Smith lawyers in providing legal assistance to a large bank holding company in all aspects of the planning and implementation of a unique and widely applauded recapitalization and asset disposition plan, including the transfer to a liquidating national bank of a substantial portion of the bank holding company's domestic troubled loan portfolio. He has also advised clients in outsourcing transactions as well as a wide variety of project financing, acquisition financing, structured financing and leasing transactions.

Tom has lectured frequently on various corporate finance matters, including participation as a lecturer on aspects of the acquisition and disposition of financial institutions. He has served as a panelist on various corporate and public finance subjects as well.