Thomas H. Cook, Jr.

Tom’s practice focuses on taxation (including corporate and LLC mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations; partnership and LLC agreements and tax matters; and low-income housing and historic rehabilitation tax credits) and partnership and limited liability company law. Before joining the firm in 1998, Tom had been a partner with another law firm in Raleigh, an attorney-advisor at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C., and a CPA with a Big Eight accounting firm in Virginia.

Tom has been actively involved with the N.C. Bar Association, as Chair of the Tax Section, a principal drafter of the most recent revisions to North Carolina’s partnership and LLC acts, a member of the LLC Act Revision Task Force, and a drafter and reviser of form documents for members of the Business Law Section (for LLCs).

American Bar Association: Taxation Section, Business Law Section

North Carolina Bar Association: Tax Section (Chair 2003-2004); Business Law Section – Business Organizations Committee, LLC Act Revision Task Force, and Forms Initiative Committee

District of Columbia Bar (inactive)

Virginia State Bar (inactive)

Appalachian State University Board of Trustees: formerly Member and Committee Chair

Trinity Baptist Church of Raleigh: member of several committees over the years

University of Virginia

B.S.

College of William & Mary

J.D.

Georgetown University

LL.M. in Taxation

University of Exeter in England

University of Grenoble in France

Tax Law Lawyer of the Year–Raleigh

The Best Lawyers in America

2024

Tax Law Lawyer of the Year–Raleigh

The Best Lawyers in America

2022

Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel