Tom is a shareholder at Fredrikson & Byron and practices in the areas of corporate, commercial, mergers and acquisitions, renewable and “green” energy and other businesses, distribution and franchising law.
He provides legal counsel to many manufacturing and service companies. His experience includes drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale of goods agreements, exclusive and nonexclusive manufacturing/supply contracts, services contracts, distribution and sales matters (including sales representative agreements), licensing and leasing, shareholder issues (including minority shareholder disputes and buy-sell agreements), as well as initial entity formation issues, sales and purchases of business (including franchisees and franchisors) and noncompetition, nonsolicitation and non-circumvention agreements. Tom has served as counsel to small businesses as well as to Fortune 500 companies.
Tom passed the Certified Public Accountant exam and worked at Grant Thornton prior to attending law school. He was appointed Volunteer of the Year in 1993 by the Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Tom has served as an advisory council member for MEDA’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program.