Sr. Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Legal Affairs at Cogmotos, Inc.

Tom has decades of experience counseling clients on corporate structuring and governance, finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and licensing. In addition to experience leading private equity and venture capital transactions, Tom regularly advises on spinoffs, mezzanine and junior capital financings, asset-based financings, debt and equity restructurings, recapitalizations and workouts. Tom is known for managing complex cross-border transactions involving parties across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. His background includes a tenure practicing law in Tokyo, and he speaks Japanese. His practice extends across a wide range of industries including life sciences, media and entertainment, information technology, aerospace and defense, food and beverage, software, automotive, energy, agribusiness, telecommunications, manufacturing and business services. Tom helps his emerging growth clients expand with a variety of investment vehicles, including utilizing securities offerings and other capital raise transactions. His Silicon Valley practice extends to advising on financing and M&A transactions for tech and IP-heavy clients. Tom founded and managed an office in Palo Alto for a New York-based law firm and sat on its Executive Committee. A frequent author on corporate structure, financing and M&A topics, Tom has also lectured at Stanford Law School, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.