Tom has over 32 years of experience concentrating in corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate, land use/zoning law, and international transactions, including representing non-U.S entities in establishing a presence in the United States.

Tom’s client base is comprised of institutional lenders and banks, closely held businesses, and individual investors and developers. He has represented a variety of corporate clients in the sales and mergers of their businesses, assisted in structuring mezzanine and other long-term financing for businesses, structuring private placement of debt and/or equity disclosure documentation, and structuring trust and other asset protection and estate planning instruments.

Tom served as Mayor and Commissioner of Delray Beach (www.mydelraybeach.com).  Previously, he served as Vice-Chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency and as Chairman of the Delray Beach Housing Authority.

Tom currently serves as the Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary from the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Belize (www.orderofmalta.int), and previously served (1999-2009) as a member of the Government Council in Rome, Italy and as a Counsellor of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta at the United Nations (www.un.int/orderofmalta).  He also served as a member of the Board of Councillors of the American Association of the Order of Malta (New York, NY) (www.orderofmaltaamerican.org)

Tom is a member of the Board of Directors of Old School Square (www.oldschoolsquare.org) and a member of the Board of Directors of New Hope Charities (Palm Beach, FL) (www.newhopecharities.org).  He is the past President of the Arts Garage (www.artsgarage.org) and former member of the Board of Trustees of Palm Beach Atlantic University (www.pba.edu) . 

During 1979 – 1983, Tom served as an Assistant Republican Tax Counsel to the Committee on Way and Means (U.S. House of Representatives) and as an Attorney-Advisor with Legislation and Regulations Division of the Internal Revenue Service (Washington D.C.).  He has been practicing in South Florida since 1984. 

Tom earned his B.S. (Political Science) at Spring Hill College; his Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Boston College Law School, and his LLM (Master of Laws in Taxation) from Georgetown University.  Tom was an Associate Editor of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, and authored “The 1976 French Finance Law: Its Effect on U.S. Citizens Residing in France with U.S. Source Passive Income,”  2 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L.J. 163 (1978).

Tom is a member of the Florida Bar, the Massachusetts Bar, and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court (Florida); United States Court of Appeals (Florida); United States Tax Court (Washington D.C.); and the United States Supreme Court.