Akin

Partner; Corporate & Finance

Tom has been a long-standing, trusted advisor for 7-Eleven, AT&T and multiple private equity funds in their M&A activities.  With over 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance matters, Tom has been repeatedly recognized as one the top M&A lawyers in Dallas and a leading M&A lawyer of color in the US. During the past 4 years, Tom has been primary lead on over 40 transactions with a value in excess of $40 billion, including the $21 billion acquisition of Speedway by 7-Eleven from Marathon Petroleum Corp. Tom is active in the Korean, Asian-American communities and The National Asian Pacific Bar Association and is a former President of the Dallas Asian-American Bar Association and is the current Chair of the Dallas Bar Association M&A Committee.

To learn more about Tom, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/thomas-h-yang.html.

Tom has been recognized in the areas of M&A, Capital Markets: Debt, and Capital Markets: Equity by IFLR1000 US; as a Top M&A Dealmaker by the Dallas Business Journal; as a Nation’s Best Honoree by Lawyers of Color; and as a Top 50 Multicultural Lawyer by the Texas Diversity Counsel.  Mr. Yang is also consistently recognized as top corporate lawyer in Dallas by D Magazine and a SuperLawyer by Thomson Reuters.

B.A., Columbia University, 1991; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1994