Thomas Wood represents clients on a broad range of tax matters, with a particular emphasis on U.S. and cross-border transactions and corporate tax planning.
Wood’s practice focuses on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, internal restructurings and transactions involving financially troubled businesses. He has significant experience representing clients in transactions involving tax-free spin-offs, split-offs and other tax-efficient dispositions. Mr. Wood also regularly advises on debt and equity offerings, financial instruments and investment fund issues
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers | 2026 | M&A, Tax Transactional, Cross Border |
| The Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers | 2025 | M&A, Tax Transactional, Cross Border |
Select representations include:
- Liberty Media Corporation in connection with the tax aspects of:
- its split-off of Liberty Live Holdings, Inc.
- its split-off of Liberty SiriusXM Holdings Inc., followed by the merger of that company with SiriusXM Holdings, Inc.
- the reclassification of Liberty Media’s outstanding common stock into three new tracking stocks
- its split-off of the Atlanta Braves and the real estate surrounding the Braves’ stadium into a separate, publicly traded company, in a transaction valued at $2.7 billion. The new company will be called Atlanta Braves Holdings Inc. and will hold all the business and assets associated with the baseball team, Truist Park stadium and the surrounding mixed-use development project
- the $4.8 billion spin-off of its cable assets into a separate, publicly traded company called Liberty Broadband Corporation
- Liberty Broadband Corporation in connection with the tax aspects of its pending $13.9 billion acquisition by Charter Communications, Inc. and its completed spin-off of GCI Liberty, Inc.
- FedEx Corporation in connection with the planned separation of FedEx and FedEx Freight into two industry-leading publicly traded companies
- Vectrus, Inc. in its $2.1 billion merger with The Vertex Company
- Triumph Group Inc. in:
- the $725 million sale of its product support business to AAR Corp.
- its going-private acquisition by affiliates of Warburg Pincus LLC and Berkshire Partners LLC at an enterprise value of $3 billion
- GCI Liberty, Inc. in connection with the tax aspects of its $8.7 billion acquisition by Liberty Broadband Corporation
- Eli Lilly and Company as special tax counsel in a tax-efficient separation of its global animal health business into a new public company, Elanco Animal Health Incorporated, which was accomplished through a series of transactions, including a carve-out IPO by Elanco and a subsequent tax-free split-off of Eli Lilly’s remaining interest in Elanco
- Liberty Interactive Corporation in connection with the tax aspects of:
- its split-off of Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc.
- its acquisition and tax-free split-off of General Communication, Inc. This transaction was named Americas Media and Entertainment Tax Deal of the Year at International Tax Review’s Americas Tax Awards
- Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. in connection with the tax aspects of its acquisition by Expedia Group, Inc.
- Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. in connection with the tax aspects of its acquisition by Tripadvisor, Inc.
- Yahoo! Inc. in the $4.5 billion sale of its operating business to Verizon Communications Inc.
- Spectra Energy Corp. in connection with the tax aspects of its $28 billion merger with Enbridge Inc. (Canada)
- General Electric Company in connection with restructuring transactions related to the strategic realignment of GE Capital