Mr Thomas Ford > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
600 TRAVIS, SUITE 4200
HOUSTON, TX 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Thomas Ford
Work Department
Business Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Tom’s practice includes extensive experience in the federal income taxation of business transactions and business entities, including formations, mergers, securities offerings and operations of, and asset “drop-downs” to publicly traded “master limited partnerships” (over 55 MLP IPOs); joint ventures and dispositions of interests therein; formation and operation of private equity partnerships, including issuance of equity to management; mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs of corporations; acquisition, ownership, exploration, development and disposition of oil and gas and other mineral interests; royalty trusts; real estate investment trusts; and financially troubled entities, including financial institutions.
Memberships
- Houston Bar Association
- Former Member of Taxation Subcommittee of the Greater Houston Partnership’s Government Relations Committee
- State Bar of Texas
- American Bar Association, Member, Tax Section
- National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships, Member of Federal Affairs Committee
- National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Former Member of Government Liaison Committee
Education
- JD, 1981, University of Houston Law Center, Order of the Barons
- BBA, 1978, Accounting, The University of Texas at Austin
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- 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: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- 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
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings