Our Attorneys

Thomas P. Oldweiler has a transactional, regulatory and general business practice with special interests in banking and emerging growth businesses. He handles sales and acquisitions of businesses of all sizes from small firms to publicly traded companies. His transactional practice includes a diverse array of real estate, licensing, buy/sell, leasing, franchising, purchase, marketing, employment, option, confidentiality and sales contracts. He also handles the financing issues associated with those transactions and the other capital needs of businesses, whether through loans, venture capital, equity or hybrid instruments and for buyers, sellers and financial intermediaries. For financial institutions, he has a regional practice in regulatory, lending, syndication, compliance and acquisition matters. For his business clients, he is often in the general business areas of formation of business entities, raising capital, agency regulation, recapitalizations, workouts, employment, director oversight and duties, succession planning and non-competition covenants.

In connection with his real estate practice, Mr. Oldweiler serves as an Adjunct Professor of Real Estate at the University of South Alabama's Mitchell College of Business.

When Mr. Oldweiler achieved the top peer rating level in Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory in 1996, he was believed to be the youngest lawyer in Alabama rated at the highest level. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in the Financial Institutions Law area. Mr. Oldweiler has been listed in Marquis' Who's Who in American Law for more than a decade.

Representative Cases

• Chatering of de novo Bank, Formation of the bank holding companies
• Nationwide coordinating counsel defending class actions in eight jurisdictions for a nationwide bank accused of consumer compliance violations
• Purchaser's counsel in acquisitions of over $100 million of branch bank assets
• Company counsel in five rounds of private equity capital for technology company
• Developers' Counsel in $155 million bond refinancing and related construction contracts