Thomas Zahn

Practice Areas

Tom is chair of the firm’s Corporate and Private Equity Department. He previously served as a member of the firm’s Board of Partners. Tom focuses his practice on private equity-backed corporate transactions.

He regularly represents private equity funds, mezzanine finance funds, family offices and institutional co-investors, independent sponsors, privately held companies and executives in a wide variety of transactional matters, including platform and add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, control, minority, growth and structured equity investments, divestitures, joint ventures, recapitalizations, commercial transactions, executive employment agreements and corporate governance matters.

His transactional experience extends across numerous borders and spans a wide array of industries, including healthcare, energy and infrastructure, education, food and beverage, distribution and manufacturing, consumer products, transportation and technology.

Tom brings a partner approach to client engagements and leverages McGuireWoods’ firmwide emphasis on matching world-class service and capabilities with an entrepreneurial spirit to deliver tremendous value to his clients. He also regularly acts as outside general counsel for private equity portfolio companies and other private companies that have limited internal legal support resources. Tom leads the firm’s regional independent sponsor roundtable groups in New York and Pennsylvania.