Seasoned litigator Thomas Mott has joined Seiden Law LLP as Counsel in its litigation practice group. With over a decade of experience representing clients in U.S. federal and state courts, Tom brings his relentlessness, creativity, and client-focus thinking to the complex commercial cases handled around the U.S. and globally by Seiden Law.

Tom comes to the firm from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP after starting his career at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP. Over the course of his career, Tom has worked on a multitude of commercial disputes involving banks, insurers, hedge funds, private equity firms in a broad range of cases concerning contracts, shareholders’ rights, activist investor campaigns, breaches of fiduciary duty, business torts (including fraud and unfair competition), bankruptcy, trusts and estates, cross-border issues, complex financial products, securities, commercial leases, federal regulators, insurance coverage, employment issues, voting rights, software implementations, and defamation.

“I am thankful that we continue to attract top litigators in the US of the caliber of Tom Mott. Tom’s vast experience, smarts, integrity and tenacity will greatly strengthen our burgeoning expert litigation team as we continue to tackle some of the most complex and meaningful cases in the world on behalf of our important clients” said Managing Partner Robert Seiden.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Thomas served in a summer clerkship under the Hon. Robert H. Cleland of the US District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell University and grew up just outside Detroit, Michigan.