Thomas L. Mitchell

Tom serves in multiple leadership positions at the firm, including as Managing Partner, Chair of the Management Committee, and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. He is also an active member of the firm’s Diversity Committee. Tom served previously as head of the firm’s Financial Services Group helping grow the practice to over 100 lawyers. Tom has spent his entire career at Moore & Van Allen, beginning as a summer associate.

He is a seasoned finance lawyer with extensive experience representing financial institutions in syndicated credit facilities in a wide variety of industries, with a focus on acquisition and leveraged finance. He has been consistently recognized as a leading banking and finance lawyer in Chambers USA, IFLR 1000 and Best Lawyers in America. Chambers USA describes Tom as a “go-to attorney for major financial institutions” and states that peers “think very highly of him.”

Tom is actively involved in the community. He serves on the Charlotte Executive Leadership Council and co-chairs its Community Engagement Team. He also serves on the board of directors and executive committee of Charlotte Center City Partners and is a member of Johnson C. Smith University’s Board of Trustees.

Notable

• Best Lawyers in America, Charlotte Banking and Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year,” 2020; 2025
• Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, 2013-2025
• Chambers USA - North Carolina, Banking & Finance, 2011-2024
• North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, Leaders in the Law, Class of 2023
• Legal 500 US, Commercial Lending, 2021-2022
• Business North Carolina’s Power List, 2021-2024
• IFLR1000, Highly Regarded - Banking and Finance, 2018-2023
• Chair, Moore & Van Allen Management Committee, 2018-present
• Member, Moore & Van Allen Diversity Committee, 2018-present 
• Member, 2040 Center City Vision Plan Steering Committee
• Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee, Charlotte Center City Partners, 2022-present
• Member of Charlotte Executive Leadership Council and Co-Chair of its Community Engagement Committee, 2018-present
• Member, Board of Trustees, Johnson C. Smith University, 2024-present 
• Member, Marand Scholarship Committee, 2022-present
• Member, Advisory Committee, Carolinas Directors Exchange 2022-present
• Member, Law Council, Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2017-present

• Former Board Member, American Heart Association Greater Charlotte Division

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Affiliations

• American Bar Association: Business Law Section
• North Carolina Bar Association: Business Law Section