REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCETom’s extensive representative experience includes:
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- Representing Martin Marietta Materials Inc. (NYSE) in its acquisition of five aggregate quarries, located in the Atlanta metropolitan area and Chattanooga, from Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE) in exchange for cash and aggregates facilities located in California, Texas and North Carolina.
- Representing a consortium of purchasers, led by Resource Management Service LLC, in its acquisition of approximately four million acres of U.S. timberland from International Paper Company for $5 billion in an installment note transaction.
- Representing Temple-Inland Inc. (NYSE) in its sale of 1.55 million acres of U.S. timberland to an investment group, led by The Campbell Group LLC, for $2.38 billion in an installment note transaction.
- Representing The Forestland Group LLC, a timberland investment management organization, in its acquisition of Anderson-Tully Company, a private real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns 323,000 acres of hardwood timberland located along the southern Mississippi River and operates a hardwood sawmill complex in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in a transaction valued at $465 million.
- Representing KODA Enterprises Group LLC, a private equity investor, in its acquisition of Ribelin Sales Inc., a distributor of specialty chemicals, for an undisclosed amount of cash.
Joint-Venture Transactions
- Representing The Forestland Group LLC in its acquisition from existing shareholders of a majority interest in Yalbac Ranch & Cattle Corporation, which owns more than 160,000 hectares of timberland in Belize and related lumber and citrus operations.
- Representing Martin Marietta Materials Inc. (NYSE), as managing member, in the formation of Hunt Martin Materials LLC, a joint venture with Hunt Midwest Mining Inc., which operates approximately 20 aggregate quarries in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions law (2005–2009)
- Named among the “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend magazine (2006)
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® (2006–2009)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, Negotiated Acquisitions Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Member and Former Secretary, Corporation Code Revision Committee, State Bar of Georgia
- Fellow, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia
- Member, Advisory Board, and Co-chair, Development Committee, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York
RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Speaker, “Evaluating and Managing Legal Risks of Offshore Timberland Investments,” World Forestry Center Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon (September 2007)