Tom Yang

About Tom Yang

Specialties: Securities and mergers and acquisitions

Experience

1. Partner

   Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

   Oct 2012 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Thomas H. Yang has more than 17 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities, including extensive experience in private equity transactions.Practice and BackgroundMr. Yang represents public and private companies in complex mergers and acquisitions, including mergers for cash and stock, forward and reverse-triangular mergers, asset and stock sales, joint ventures and other strategic combinations. He has extensive experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies in their transactional activities.Mr. Yang also acts as counsel to issuers and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of debt and equity, including initial and follow-on common stock offerings, shelf offerings, convertible securities, depositary shares, discount notes, Regulation S offerings, Rule 144A private placements and A/B exchange offers. He acts as lead securities counsel to New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ-listed companies in various industries.In 2011, Mr. Yang was named as one of six top M&A dealmakers by the Dallas Business Journal, and recognized by D Magazine as one of the best corporate lawyers in Dallas. Mr. Yang is active in the Asian-American community and is a former President of the Dallas Asian-American Bar Association.

Education

• Columbia University

  BA, Economics and Philosophy

  1987 — 1991

• Columbia Law School

  Doctor of Law (J.D.)

  1991 — 1994

• Phillips Exeter Academy

  High School

  1984 — 1987

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Capital Markets