Mr Gary Thompson > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
RIVERFRONT PLAZA, EAST TOWER
951 EAST BYRD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States
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Mr Gary Thompson
Work Department
Energy, Food Industry, Retail and Consumer Products, Mergers and Acquisitions, International and Cross-Border Transactions, Corporate Governance and Board Advisory, Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Gary Thompson served for many years as co-chair of the firm’s M&A practice group. His representative clients include companies in the consumer products, technology, defense and energy sectors. He has over 30 years’ experience advising corporate clients in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, carve-out transactions, minority investments and governance matters. The Best Lawyers in America has named him an Eminent Practitioner since 2021, and has recognized him in the areas of corporate and M&A law since 2005; in 2021 that publication also recognized him as Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Law in Richmond, Virginia, after having selected him as 2019 Lawyer of the Year for M&A Law, Virginia. Gary was named among the Top 50 North Americas M&A lawyers for 2022, 2014 and 2013, and as the 2012 M&A Lawyer of the Year – Americas Middle Markets, by the Global M&A Network; he has led deal teams that were awarded ten M&A Atlas Awards.
Memberships
Admitted to the Virginia State Bar
Education
- JD, Boston University School of Law, 1984
- AB, History, Cornell University, 1981
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate