Thomas J. Bauch
Managing Director

Tom Bauch is a Managing Director at Hall Capital Partners LLC and a member of the Firm's Portfolio Management practice.

In 2000, Mr. Bauch joined the Firm as Managing Director. Mr. Bauch was in private legal practice from 1996 to 2000, advising large private companies, their principals and advisors on a variety of matters. He also served as a consulting professor at Stanford Law School, where he continued to teach until 2004. From 1977 to 1996, Mr. Bauch was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Levi Strauss & Co. Prior to joining Levi Strauss & Co., Mr. Bauch was in private practice with a major Chicago law firm while leading a volunteer legal aid clinic, worked as associate general counsel for securities and acquisitions for a Fortune 100 company, and acted as the special assistant and lead litigation counsel for the Solicitor of Labor for the United States in high profile ERISA cases.

Mr. Bauch is a founding board member of Gateway High School, a charter college preparatory high school in San Francisco. He was a founding director of the American Corporate Counsel Association. He has served on the Boards of the San Francisco Opera Association, the Charles Armstrong School, the American Corporate Counsel Associate, the Urban School and Telluride Academy. Mr. Bauch is a member of the investment committee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Mr. Bauch received his Bachelor's degree in English Literature, magna cum laude in 1964, and law degree, summa cum laude in 1966, from the University of Wisconsin.