C. Thomas Hicks III
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
C. Thomas Hicks III is a partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, with a practice that focuses on general business, corporate finance, and tax matters. Mr. Hicks represents computer software and hardware firms, information technology firms, Internet and e-commerce firms, communications firms, and miscellaneous other businesses.
Mr. Hicks' areas of experience include the formation, reorganization, operation, and disposition of businesses; corporate, partnership, and limited liability company issues; venture capital financing and private placements; outside general counsel to fast growth technology companies; mergers and acquisitions; joint ventures; divestitures; contracts; employment; executive compensation and benefits; and federal and Virginia tax matters.
Mr. Hicks is involved in a number of professional and community activities, including service as a Board and Executive Committee Member, past General Counsel, past Chair of the Government Affairs Committee, and past Co-Chair of the Finance Committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council; General Counsel and Advisory Board member of the Draper Atlantic Venture Fund; former Co-Chair of the Virginia Governor's Venture Capital Roundtable; a founder and past President of the Northern Virginia Association for Commercial Real Estate; Executive Committee Member, Vice President, and General Counsel of the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance; Member of the Board of Directors, Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce; past Chairman, Virginia State Bar Business Law Section Board of Governors; and Vice Chair of the Virginia Bar Association Business Law Council.
Mr. Hicks graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (B.S.C.E. 1967) and the University of Georgia (J.D. 1970). He received an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. He is admitted to practice in Virginia, Georgia, and the District of Columbia, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court (Alexandria Division), and the U.S. Court of Military Appeals.
Mr. Hicks is the author of Choosing a Virginia Business Entity, a lawyer's practice handbook published by the Virginia Law Foundation, and is co-author of Limited Liability Companies in Virginia, a lawyer's practice handbook published by the Virginia Law Foundation. He has been recognized by numerous publications as one of the region's top technology lawyers, including being included in Regardie's Power list of the "100 Most Powerful People In Greater Washington's New, New Economy" and being listed under the Corporate category in the Virginia Edition of Best Lawyers in America.