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Thomas F. Carney
Chairman

Tom’s client base is comprised of high net worth individuals, 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. 

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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.

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Community Leader

Tom is the current Mayor of Delray Beach, Florida. Previously, he served as a Commissioner of Delray Beach, Vice-Chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency and as Chairman of the Delray Beach Housing Authority.

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Tom served as the Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary from the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Belize (www.orderofmalta.int) from 2001 through 2023, 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 Councilors of the American Association of the Order of Malta (New York, NY) (www.orderofmaltaamerican.org).

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Tom is a former member of the Board of Directors of Old School Square (www.oldschoolsquare.org) and is currently 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).

Memberships

  • Admitted to the FL Bar and MA Bar

  • 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.

  • Member of the Board of Directors of Old School Square (www.oldschoolsquare.org)

  • Member of the Board of Directors of New Hope Charities (Palm Beach, FL) (www.newhopecharities.org).

Education

  • Spring Hill College (BS)

    • Served as Associate Editor of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review

    • 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)

  • Boston College Law School (JD)

  • Georgetown University (LLM)

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