Thomas H. Cook, Jr.

Practice Areas

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).

Professional Memberships

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

Education

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