Thomas B. Parent

Clients find a trusted advisor in Partner Tom Parent. His experiences are wide and deep, making him a perfect collaborator for businesses and individuals facing complex problems.

Tom has made significant impacts on long-time Stuart and Branigin client, Purdue University. As Assistant Legal Counsel, he has negotiated enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation agreements for the OnePurdue project, negotiated multiple complex business transactions, and represented the University in business, trademark and copyright matters.

As a member of the Google Steering Committee for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Tom has helped negotiate and implement a landmark agreement with Google that will make library materials from Purdue and other universities available digitally, making them more widely accessible and discoverable.

Tom uses his outstanding research and writing skills to represent other flagship clients in business and real estate matters, including Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc., North Central Health Services, Inc., and The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana. Tom helped negotiate both the merger of St. Elizabeth and Home Hospitals and the sale of North Central Health Services, Inc.'s interest in Greater Lafayette Health Services, Inc. to Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc. Tom has also been lead counsel in a number of significant business acquisitions and sales.

In addition to the foregoing, Tom advises individual clients in a wide range of general business, estate planning, and estate administration issues.

"It's my intention to provide every client with top-flight, prompt, ethical representation," says Tom.

Education

• Purdue University, B.S., with highest distinction, 1982; Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, J.D., magna cum laude, 1986

Honors

• Order of the Coif
• Administrative Editor, Indiana Law Journal
• American Jurisprudence Awards (constitutional law, juvenile justice)
• Forrest E. Jump Scholarship
• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Purdue President's Top 500 Award

Bar Admission

• Indiana, 1986

Professional Associations

• Tippecanoe County Bar Association
• Indiana State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• National Association of College and University Attorneys
• American Health Lawyers Association
• National Diocesan Attorneys Association

Professional Positions

• Assistant Legal Counsel, Trustees of Purdue University
• Member, CIC-Google Settlement Negotiation Team
• General Counsel, The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, Inc

Civic / Charitable Activities

• Chairman and Director, Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette, Inc.
• Member, Lafayette Community Council, 2009-present
• Director, ex officio, United Way of Greater Lafayette, 2009-present
• Director, Catholic Foundation of Northcentral Indiana, Inc.
• Finance Counsel Member, Planned Giving Advisory Council Member, The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, Inc.
• Member, Lafayette Area Catholic Schools Development and Investment Committees
• Member, Greater Lafayette Estate Planning Council
• Coach, multiple girls' and boys' soccer and basketball teams

Publications / Presentations

• Presenter, NAIFA-Lafayette Continuing Education Seminar for Lawyers, CPAs and Insurance Professionals: "12 Things That Can Go Wrong in Moderate-Size Estates" (2008)
• Author and presenter, "Structuring the Entity, Choice of Business Entity Delaware v. Indiana," ICLEF Building Indiana Companies from the Ground Up: Legal Issues Seminar (2003)
• Author and presenter, "Choice of Business Entity," ICLEF Business Organizational Issues Seminar (1998)
• Frequent presenter, miscellaneous estate planning seminars
• Frequent lecturer, Lafayette Small Business Development Center Seminars, Lafayette Entrepreneurship Academy, 1994-present