McDermott Will & Schulte

Tom Conaghan is co-head of the firm’s Media, Entertainment & Sports practice, co-head of the firm’s Capital Markets and Public Companies Practice Group, and partner-in-charge of the Corporate Group in the Washington, DC office. As leader of the firm’s award-winning Sports practice, Tom represents teams, owners, and investors across all major U.S. professional sports leagues, as well as US, and international and emerging leagues, on a broad range of matters, including ownership transfers, capital raising transactions, and M&A transactions. Tom frequently represents clients on high-profile deals across the industry, helping drive the continued growth of McDermott’s Sports practice, which was named “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360 in 2025 and ranked among the leading Sports Law practices in the US by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 in 2026. As the co-head of the Capital Markets practice, Tom represents public and private companies, underwriters and other sources of capital, corporate boards and board committees, and corporate executives.