Tom Knox is a partner at Shaw Pittman LLP, a Washington, D.C. law firm. He advises technology companies of all sizes on corporate and finance matters and on technology creation, use, exploitation, marketing and disposition.

In the technology field, Tom counsels clients on intellectual property development, licensing and protection issues; electronic commerce, outsourcing, complex systems procurement, strategic alliance and teaming arrangements; consulting and services agreements; distributor, reseller and dealer arrangements; telecommunications services agreements; and the management and disposition of intellectual property portfolios.
On corporate and finance matters, Tom advises clients on venture capital, private placement and other kinds of financing; mergers and acquisitions; purchases and sales of assets; and strategic transactions and joint ventures. He serves as outside general counsel to a number of companies and in that capacity he advises management and boards of directors on a wide range of issues facing high-growth technology companies.
Tom has served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and has been a speaker on various topics relating to technology law and emerging companies. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Middlebury College. Tom is a member of the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia bar associations.

Representative clients include America Online, Sun Microsystems, XO Communications, webMethods, Cordiem, Sourcefire and ObjectVideo.