Gerald Thomas is a partner in the Federal Income Tax Group of Alston & Bird LLP, practicing out of the firm's Atlanta office. Mr. Thomas concentrates his practice on the structuring and effecting of complex business transactions, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures, private equity funds, partnership compensation programs, REITs, and corporate and partnership tax planning. Mr. Thomas is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), the American Bar Association Section on Taxation (including the Corporate and Partnership Tax Committees) and the Atlanta Bar Association Taxation Section. He was named one of Georgia’s top 12 lawyers under 40 in the 2008 edition of the Fulton County Daily Report's annual "On the Rise" special section.


Mr. Thomas is a frequent lecturer on the topics of corporate tax, partnership tax and tax issues related to REITs. He has presented to numerous professional organizations, including the American Bar Association’s Tax Section, Lorman Education Services, Corporate Tax Congress, AICPA, IMN's Non-Traded Private REIT Industry Symposium and Tax Executives Institute, having given speeches in cities across the country and in London, England.

Mr. Thomas is a member of the firm’s Associates’ Committee, Hiring Committee and Diversity Committee and is active in the firm’s mentoring and recruiting programs.

Mr. Thomas received his B.S. in accounting and international business, magna cum laude, in 1994 from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his J.D. degree in 1997 and his LL.M. degree in Taxation in 1998 from New York University School of Law, where he was a graduate editor on the Tax Law Review. Mr. Thomas is admitted to practice in New York, Georgia and Illinois.