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Practice Area:

Business Law

 
 
 
Thomas L. Bowden, Sr. is a member of the Business group. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions and corporate finance. He works in the firm's Richmond office.

Tom has extensive experience in corporate law, venture capital, private equity, real estate development, real estate tax credits, tenant in common syndications, public and private corporate securities, public finance and commercial litigation. Examples of the matters he handles include:

  • Frequently representing venture capital and private equity funds in formation and in portfolio for their investment transactions.
  • Initiating and spearheading the merger of Integrity Communications with Spike Technologies of Nashua, New Hampshire to form Spike Broadband Systems, including participation in developing worldwide sales and growth strategy.
  • Representing emerging growth companies and founders in various financings involving equity and subordinated convertible debt structures.
  • Counseling clients on strategies and techniques for establishment and protection of intellectual property.
  • Representing entrepreneurs in a highly successful re-launch of a large restaurant and brew-pub business.
  • Representing an industrial company in formulating and executing a merger and acquisition strategy that took the company from $3M in sales to its current annual sales of more than $2 Billion. (Listed NYSE, 1986)

Tom has been rated by his peers through the Martindale Hubbell Peer Review process as BV*. He has been listed among the Virginia Business Magazine's Legal Elite (2004) and in the  Virginia Super Lawyers directory (2006, 2008).

Tom is a regular contributor to RichmondBizSense.com, a local business news site that also produces a weekday business news alert. He blogs at VaBizLawyers.com and FinancialRecoveryLaw.com. He is an avid outdoorsman and wildlife photographer.

Resources

Tom Bowden and Tom Bricken are interviewed on business topics by George Whitehurst of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce on the monthly BizLink radio show. Hear them in two section: Part 1 and Part 2.

 

 

■ Quick Facts

 

BV rating 

Education 

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1983
M.B.A., Wharton School of Business 1983
AB in Economics, with Honors, Princeton University, 1978

Professional Affiliations

  • American Bar Association 
  • Virginia Bar Association 
  • Bar Association of the City of Richmond
  • University of Pennsylvania Alumni of Richmond, President
  • The Venture Forum, (Director and Chairman, Sponsorship Committee)

Admissions

  • Virginia (1991)
  • Pennsylvania (inactive)

Community Service 

  • Cycor Sports (local cycling organization) - Co-founder; Advisory Group and General Counsel
  • Greater Richmond Technology Council - Co-founder.
  • BikeWalk Virginia, Board of Directors
 

■ Quick Facts

 

BV rating 

Education 

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1983
M.B.A., Wharton School of Business 1983
AB in Economics, with Honors, Princeton University, 1978

Professional Affiliations

  • American Bar Association 
  • Virginia Bar Association 
  • Bar Association of the City of Richmond
  • University of Pennsylvania Alumni of Richmond, President
  • The Venture Forum, (Director and Chairman, Sponsorship Committee)

Admissions

  • Virginia (1991)
  • Pennsylvania (inactive)

Community Service 

  • Cycor Sports (local cycling organization) - Co-founder; Advisory Group and General Counsel
  • Greater Richmond Technology Council - Co-founder.
  • BikeWalk Virginia, Board of Directors