Frantz, Tom
Tom Frantz currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Williams Mullen. Drawing on his tax background, he also maintains a robust corporate legal practice as a Partner representing multi-national corporations, handling major mergers and acquisitions, and advising corporations on a variety of legal matters.
Tom previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm from 2010 to 2015. Before joining the firm, Tom was an original principal with Clark & Stant, which merged with Williams Mullen in 1999. He became General Counsel to Tidewater Health Care, Inc., the parent company of Virginia Beach General Hospital, in 1989. He currently serves as Outside Corporate Counsel to Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc., a NYSE REIT. He is admitted before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and all Virginia courts.
Tom is a member of the American College of Tax Counsel, the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel, the Virginia Bar Association’s Taxation Section, the American Association of Attorney CPAs, the Virginia Society of CPAs, and the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. He is also a member of the Corporate, Banking and Business Law, Taxation and Health Care Sections of the American Bar Association. He is a past president of the Hampton Roads Tax Forum and is a director of the William & Mary Annual Tax Conference.
Tom has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© for each year of publication since 1983 and was named the Best Lawyers’® 2011 Norfolk Area Corporate Lawyer of the Year and 2012 Norfolk Area Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year. He has also been named to Virginia Business magazine’s list of “Legal Elite.” Tom has been recognized as a leading Corporate/M&A attorney in the U.S. by Chambers USA and named a “Super Lawyer” for Business/Corporate by Virginia Super Lawyers magazine. Virginia Super Lawyers magazine listed him as one of the "Top 50 Attorneys in Virginia" every year from 2006 to 2011, and in 2008, he was listed as one of the “Top 10 Attorneys in Virginia.” In addition, Martindale-Hubbell has rated Tom an AV attorney, its highest rating available.