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Tom Knox is a partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate, Finance and Investments group. He serves as chair of the firm's global Technology Corporate practice and as co-chair of the firmwide Technology Industry Group. He advises clients on corporate, M&A, financing, technology transactions and outsourcing matters, serving as a strategic advisor to public, private and emerging companies in the software, technology, life sciences, transportation, manufacturing and government services sectors, and to investors in such companies.
Tom provides advice on a wide range of corporate and securities transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital and private equity investments and divestitures, joint ventures and other corporate finance and governance matters.
He also structures and negotiates enterprise outsourcing, realignment and optimization transactions, including traditional and vested sourcing deals, strategic alliances, performance partnerships, preferred supplier arrangements and other complex transactions. He advises on the sourcing and procurement of facilities management, logistics and supply chain systems and other business processes.
Since 2008 Tom has been listed as a Band 1 Leading Individual by the independent international rating firm Chambers & Partners. A Chambers USA reviewer in 2025 described Tom as “a great commercial and IP attorney, and added a lot of value to our work" and "has a strong reputation for his expertise in technology transactions. His broad capabilities include M&A and financing.” Another Chambers reviewer described Tom as “one of the best deal negotiators that I’ve ever worked with. He is tenacious in representing our interests”. Another noted that “he anticipates issues, has ideas on how to take them on and executes very well. He has good ideas about risks, keeps things practical and gets things done.”
Tom was named to the Legal 500 Private Practice Powerlist for M&A in the U.S. in 2023 and 2024. He is consistently rated AV (Preeminent) by Martindale Hubbell, was named by the Washington Business Journal as Washington’s Top Corporate Finance Lawyer and is consistently named to the Virginia Super Lawyers, Washington DC Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers and Legal 500 US lists.
He is a frequent speaker on corporate, sourcing and technology transaction topics. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University and as a guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan Law School and Middlebury College. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for International Understanding.
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