Thomas H. Moody

Tom Moody represents private equity firms, individual investors and local and regional technology companies in general corporate matters, investment transactions, and a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. He advises clients on entity formation, organization and ownership structures.

Tom has a unique practice for Vermont that includes advising companies that conduct business internationally. His experience includes international corporate ownership structures, off-shore corporations and international financing transactions.

Tom has represented institutional lenders, both banks and non-bank financial institutions, in many different types of financing transactions. He is experienced in general business loans, asset-based loans, factoring, floorplan financing, securitization of receivables and other debt instruments. He is well-versed in secured transactions, including Article 9 transactions, mortgage lending, leasehold mortgage transactions and transactions involving intellectual property as collateral.

Tom is the current Chair of the Business Association Section of the Vermont Bar Association. He is actively involved with the efforts of several subcommittees of the Business Association Section that are currently working on legislative proposals relating to ofjectives of business entities and business law. Tom is also a member of the LLC Act Drafting committee of the VBA Business Association Section.

Tom is the Chair of the firm’s Business Law Group. In that role, he works to carry out the group’s Action Plan, including managing intake, workloads and the group's training program. Over the past several years, he has created an extensive database of model documents for use by the Business Law Group that covers a wide range of transactions and entity types.

He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the state of Vermont in the areas of Corporate/Commercial law in the 2007 Chambers USA Guides to America's Leading Business Lawyers. He has been selected by his peers to be included in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the fields of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. He is also recognized in the most recent edition of Who's Who Legal USA in the fields of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.

Tom is a member of the American Bar Association and a member of the ABA UCC Committee and ABA Section of Business Law.

Tom is an active member of his community, serving as:

• Director of Catamount Outdoor Family Center (2002 – Present)

• Director and Vice President of the Green Mountain Bicycle Club (2000-Present)

• Founder of the Green Mountain Stage Race and Race Director of the Burlington Criterium (2000-Present)

• Director and Vice President of Lake Iroquois Association

• Participant in 2006-07 Cochran Ski Area Capital Campaign

He is an avid skier, sailor and cyclist.

Inside Minds – Private Equity and VC Strategies (2007)