ACG Detroit Selects Thomas S. Vaughn for Its M&A All Star Lifetime Achievement Award

Dykema is proud to announce that the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Detroit will award Thomas S. Vaughn with its Lifetime Achievement Award at its 9th Annual M&A All Star Awards. Vaughn will be honored at the M&A All Star Awards event on Monday, May 6, 2024, at The Townsend Hotel.

Vaughn has long been involved as a leader with ACG Detroit, which celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year. He has chaired its annual M&A Awards Ceremony for the last eight years while also serving on the organization’s board of directors.

Vaughn joined Dykema in 1980 and practices as part of the firm’s Corporate Finance Group, including serving as Co-Chair of its M&A Group until 2023. During the past 43 years, he has focused his practice on representing a wide variety of middle market buyers and sellers in their mergers and acquisition transactions, helping them grow their businesses through strategic acquisitions or achieving a favorable exit for company owners. His clients have included numerous multigenerational family-owned companies, small publicly traded companies, international companies entering the U.S. market, venture-backed companies, and start-up companies. The M&A transactions Vaughn has worked on include businesses involved in the mobility, technology, business services, and healthcare industries.

He is also a well-established thought leader in the M&A sector. Since its launch in 2005, he has researched patterns and trends in the M&A space and served as a principal driver for Dykema’s noted Annual Mergers & Acquisitions Outlook Survey.

Recognized among top lawyers in Michigan by Chambers USA 2023, clients note that Vaughn is “very knowledgeable about the law, but also the practical side of doing business.” He’s been listed in Chambers each year since 2017, and he’s been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 2007—including being named “Lawyer of the Year” in Securities/Capital Markets Law twice.

Vaughn earned a J.D., magna cum laude, and a B.S., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Vaughn also has served on the Grosse Pointe Woods City Council since 2021 and currently serves on its Election Commission and as its representative to the Planning Commission and to the Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG). Prior to that, he served on its Planning Commission and Senior Citizens Advisory Commission since the 1980s.

Dykema congratulates Tom Vaughn on this impressive, well-deserved achievement and thanks him for his dedication and service to the firm and its clients.