Practice Areas
Education
- A.B., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966
- M.B.A., Harvard University, 1972
- Master of Accounting, University of South Carolina, 1977
- J.D., University of South Carolina, 1978
Bar & Court Admissions
- South Carolina, 1978
Thomas (Tom) Waring
A Harvard M.B.A., holder of joint degrees in law and accounting, former financial officer, and member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Tom Waring brings his business and banking clients a rare depth and breadth of business and legal know-how, including external "general counsel" type experience to a financial institution and a number of companies.
Before joining Moore & Van Allen in 1999, he served as managing partner at the Charleston law firm Holmes & Thomson. Previously, he worked in resort real estate development in South Carolina—first as a project manager and financial officer with the Sea Pines Company on Hilton Head Island and then as the vice president of finance and administration with the Kiawah Island Company in Charleston.
A native of Charleston, Mr. Waring graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1966 and served four years as a line officer in the U.S. Navy on destroyers, including a combat tour off North Vietnam.
Practice Focus
- General business representation
- General lender representation
- Commercial loan work-outs
- Foreclosures
- Receivership
- "General counsel" consultation
Of Note
- Chair of the trustees, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
- Trustee emeritus, MUSC Foundation of the Medical University of South Carolina
- University of South Carolina Law School Partnership Board, 1990-present; Chair, 1993-1998
- Advisory Board Member, Charleston School of Law
- Member and former chair, Nominating Committee, Gibbes Museum of Art, of which he is also a former president
- Mentor, The Citadel, School of Business
- Founding member of the board and chair, Grants Committee, The John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation
- Evening Post Publishing Co., Inc., Board Member, 1993-present
- Past chair, Carolina Youth Development Center/Charleston Orphan House
- Former trustee, Historic Charleston Foundation and the Porter-Gaud School
- Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, General Counsel, 1995-1996
- Bank of America, Charleston Advisory Board, 1980-2002
- Certified Circuit Court Mediator, 1996-present
- Palmer & Cay of South Carolina, Inc., South Carolina Advisory Board, 1996-2005
News
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Charleston County Bar Association
- Master-in-Equity Bench-Bar Committee, 2005-present
- South Carolina Bar Association
- Member, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, 2004-present