About

Legg Mason is one of the world’s largest asset management firms, comprising a diversified group of global affiliates. Tom Merchant first joined the firm in 1998 and was promoted to general counsel in 2013. ‘Tom has really figured out how to bring all the different aspects of the business together,’ says one in-house source. ‘He is overseeing some very complicated issues and doing a very nice job’. Merchant overseas all legal and compliance divisions.