Thomas Kiefer Wedeles joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 2008 as an associate in the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice. He was previously a corporate associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in both New York and London, where his experience included merger and acquisition transactions, buyouts and other going-private transactions, consortia arrangements, and international and domestic corporate finance transactions. He has represented:
- Private equity and strategic clients in all aspects of negotiated corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and other consortium arrangements involving targets located in the United States and worldwide;
- Issuers and underwriters or initial purchasers in connection with corporate finance and capital markets transactions, including registered and unregistered equity and debt offerings, derivative transactions and share repurchases; and
- Portfolio companies in drafting, reviewing and negotiating confidentiality agreements, employment arrangements, regulatory submissions and corporate governance materials.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Thomas was a law clerk from 2003 to 2004 for the Honorable Nathaniel M. Gorton, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, in Boston and a summer law clerk in 2001 for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. in political science in 1998 from Colgate University and his J.D. in 2003 from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as senior notes editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.
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