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Tom Conaghan is co-head of the firm’s Capital Markets and Public Companies Practice Group and partner-in-charge of the Corporate Group in the Washington, DC, office. He is also the co-head of the firm’s Media, Entertainment & Sports practice.
Tom represents public and private companies, underwriters and other sources of capital, corporate boards and board committees, and corporate executives. He advises US- and foreign-based public companies on issues relating to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, strategic investments, spin-offs, public and private offerings of securities (including initial public offerings (IPOs)), disclosure, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, corporate governance, executive compensation, and the stock exchange-listed company rules.
Tom also represents clients in the sports & entertainment industries in connection with strategic investments and M&A. McDermott’s Sports practice was named “Practice Group of the Year” for 2025 by Law360.
Capital Markets
- Represented AirSculpt Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRS), a national provider of body contouring procedures under the brand, Elite Body Sculpture, and AirSculpt’s majority stockholder Vesey Street Capital Partners, in the $90 million IPO of AirSculpt Technologies, as well as in its follow-on equity offerings and the establishment of an at-the-market equity facility
- Represented Travis Boersma, founder of Dutch Bros. Coffee (NYSE: BROS), a drive-through coffee chain, in its $550 million IPO
- Legal 500 US, Recommended, 2012-2019, 2023-2025
- IFLR1000, Private Equity, 2022-2023
- Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity, 2019
- Variety Magazine, Legal Impact Report Honoree, 2025
- M&A Advisor, Consumer M&A Deal of the Year, for representation of Dogfish Head Brewery in its $300 million merger with the Boston Beer Company, 2019
- M&A Advisor, Consumer M&A Deal of the Year, for representation of Fila Korea and Mirae Asset Private Equity in the $1.225 billion acquisition of Acushnet Company (Titleist Golf) from Fortune Brands, Inc. (2011)
- Greater Washington, DC Board of Trade, Legal Task Force for the Greater Washington Smart Region Movement
- Capital Lacrosse Club, president
- Notre Dame Law School, JD, cum laude
- University of Notre Dame, BA
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- Inglese
- Francese
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