Mr. Thompson has more than 25 years of experience in advising clients on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (including related restructuring transactions and debt and equity offerings), co-investments and other structured joint ventures, financial products, real estate investment trusts, spin-offs, debt restructuring transactions, public offerings, and associated corporate, consolidated return, international, and partnership tax issues in the U.S.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Thompson worked in the national offices of KPMG and EY after starting his career at one of the leading Wall Street law firms of the era. He has worked across many industries and sectors, and his clients have included large and small multinational corporations, sovereign wealth and pension funds, investment and commercial banks, family offices, and large and midsize private equity and venture capital funds. 

Mr. Thompson earned a bachelor’s degree from Austin College, Texas, a J.D. from Southern Methodist University, Texas, and an LLM from New York University. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Corporate, Affiliated, and Partnership Committees on Taxation. For over 15 years, he has been a Principal Contributor to the leading treatise on Section 355 spin-offs: Corporate Distributions under Section 355 by Thomas F. Wessel, Joseph M. Pari, and Richard D’Avino for the Practising Law Institute.