Thomas Vega-Byrnes

Thomas Vega-Byrnes is a Chicago attorney in private practice specializing in international business transactions, such as investments in and lending to microfinance institutions in developing countries; development and financing of electric power plants; international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; secured lending; distribution, supply and licensing agreements and other commercial contracts and corporate law.

Mr. Vega-Byrnes was a partner at Winston & Strawn from 1998 to 2002, in Project Finance and Leasing. From 1990 to 1998, he was an associate at Baker & McKenzie (Chicago) in the Latin America Practice Group. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Vega-Byrnes worked at Baker & McKenzie Monterrey, Mexico. He also did an International Clerkship in the firm's Mexico City office in 1989.

Mr. Vega-Byrnes received a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1990. He was admitted in Illinois in 1990, and in New York in 2003. He is a member of the ABA Section of Business Law, Section of International Law and Practice, and Construction Law Forum, Illinois and New York State Bar Associations. He has been named to the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution's Panel of Distinguished Neutrals. Previously Mr. Vega-Byrnes has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Law School. He is also a member of Amigos de Alivio, raising funds for Alivio Medical Center, which provides primary medical care to the under- and uninsured in Chicago's Latino community.