Thompson R. Pearcy

Tom Pearcy is a partner in the Charleston office of Bowles Rice LLP and leads the firm’s Commercial Services and Public Finance practice group.  Tom has significant experience in public finance and municipal bonds, mergers and acquisitions, secured financings, project development, private offerings and securities regulation and compliance matters.

Tom has extensive involvement in the firm’s bond practice, serving as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, disclosure counsel and trustee’s counsel in various public finance matters.  In connection with that work, he has advised and represented state entities, school boards, county commissions, building commissions, municipalities and other public bodies with respect to a wide variety of issues related to taxable and tax-exempt bonds, lease-purchase financings, energy savings contracts, tax increment financing (TIF) districts, payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) arrangements and other economic development projects.

In addition to his public finance experience, Tom represents public and private companies in connection with a wide array of commercial and transactional matters, including complex contract negotiations, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate governance and serving as borrower’s counsel and lender’s counsel in secured financings.

Tom is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the West Virginia State Bar, and has been recognized as The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch in the areas of banking and finance, creditor rights and business organizations.  He currently serves on the board of directors of Edgewood Summit and was appointed by Governor Jim Justice to serve on the West Virginia Municipal Pensions Oversight Board.

Representative Matters:

• Served as borrower’s counsel for an oil and gas company in connection with its $1.5 billion syndicated credit facility
• Served as bond counsel for a state issuer in connection with its $333 million toll revenue bonds
• Served as disclosure counsel for a state issuer in connection with its $600 million general obligation state road bonds
• Served as bond counsel in connection with a school board’s $124 million public school bonds
• Served as lender’s counsel in connection with a $50 million secured credit facility to a health insurance company
• Served as counsel in connection with the establishment of a tax increment financing (TIF) districts and the issuance of TIF bonds
• Served as bond counsel in connection with state agency’s $133 million refunding revenue bonds
• Served as borrower’s counsel for a private oil and gas company in connection with its $50 million construction-to-permanent financing
• Served as bond counsel for a state agency in connection with its $26 million energy savings lease-purchase transaction
• Served as bond counsel in connection with an economic development authority’s $142 million refunding revenue bonds
• Served as disclosure counsel for a state issuer in connection with its $200 million general obligation state road bonds
• Served as bond counsel in connection with a school board’s $60 million public school bonds
• Served as counsel to project development companies in connection with payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreements
• Served as bond counsel for a state issuer in connection with its $166 million toll revenue bonds
• Served as lender’s counsel in connection with a historic tax credit loan to a private developer
• Served as borrower’s counsel for a private oil and gas company in connection with its $38 million construction and investment tax credit financing
• Served as bond counsel in connection with a school board’s $43 million public school bonds

• Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (Banking and Finance Law; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Business Organizations - including LLCs and Partnerships), 2021-present
• Recipient of CALI Awards (recognition for achieving the highest grade in a particular subject) at West Virginia University College of Law:
• Health Care Torts; and
• Employment Law

• National Association of Bond Lawyers