Tom DeSplinter advises on corporate transactions, with a focus on private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, corporate spinoffs, restructurings and dispositions of assets, and other transactions.
With a focus on deals valued in the range of $10 million to $100 million, he represents private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, independent sponsors and privately owned and founder-owned businesses in the exit process.
Tom has extensive experience advising clients in a broad array of industries, including healthcare/life sciences, food and beverage, energy, manufacturing, construction, aerospace/defense, technology, venture capital, media, entertainment, advertising, consumer services, financial services and retail. His work includes negotiating and drafting transaction documents and counseling clients with regard to the legal aspects of day-to-day operations, including on general corporate matters.
Before joining Sheppard, Tom served as the vice president of corporate development for a portfolio company of a multinational private equity fund, where he led deal teams focused on investing in regulated utility and transmission assets. He also worked at a multinational oil and gas company, in the integrated supply and trading unit.
Tom currently serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General's Corps, where he advises commanders and soldiers on various areas of military law. He was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He also is a member of the Board of Advisors of Catholic Charities of Chicago, where he serves on the Veterans Support Committee.