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Akin Offices
2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481
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Thomas H. Yang
Work Department
Partner; Corporate & Finance
Position
Tom has been a long-standing, trusted advisor for 7-Eleven, AT&T and multiple private equity funds in their M&A activities. With over 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance matters, Tom has been repeatedly recognized as one the top M&A lawyers in Dallas and a leading M&A lawyer of color in the US. During the past 4 years, Tom has been primary lead on over 40 transactions with a value in excess of $40 billion, including the $21 billion acquisition of Speedway by 7-Eleven from Marathon Petroleum Corp. Tom is active in the Korean, Asian-American communities and The National Asian Pacific Bar Association and is a former President of the Dallas Asian-American Bar Association and is the current Chair of the Dallas Bar Association M&A Committee.
To learn more about Tom, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/thomas-h-yang.html.
Career
Tom has been recognized in the areas of M&A, Capital Markets: Debt, and Capital Markets: Equity by IFLR1000 US; as a Top M&A Dealmaker by the Dallas Business Journal; as a Nation’s Best Honoree by Lawyers of Color; and as a Top 50 Multicultural Lawyer by the Texas Diversity Counsel. Mr. Yang is also consistently recognized as top corporate lawyer in Dallas by D Magazine and a SuperLawyer by Thomson Reuters.
Education
B.A., Columbia University, 1991; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1994
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization