Chiefs’ Win Leaves Top Lawyer for Team’s Founder Breathless (1)

Alan Tompkins, a prime lawyer for the loved ones of late Kansas Town Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, mentioned Sunday’s victory was a high stage in his 20-12 months affiliation with the club.

“I do not believe I took a breath through the final a few minutes,” Tompkins mentioned of the team’s 38-35 victory around the Philadelphia Eagles, incorporating that he’s relished “watching the advancement and progress of the Chiefs.”

Tompkins is basic counsel for Unity Hunt Inc., the guardian company of the Hunt family’s business holdings, with sporting assets that incorporate the NFL’s Chiefs, Significant League Soccer’s FC Dallas, and Kansas City Mavericks, a insignificant league hockey staff.

He spends most of his time managing corporate issues and transactions, serious estate tasks, and financings and investments, even though also dealing with main sponsorships, logos and copyrights, Tompkins stated. “I aid the household with management of their trusts and legal affairs,” he mentioned.

He also will help “with Chiefs issues from time to time, when Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt phone calls on me.” Clark Hunt is one particular of Lamar Hunt’s a few sons and a aspect-proprietor of the Chiefs, whose star quarterback is Patrick Mahomes.

Tompkins started as basic counsel in 2003 immediately after doing the job at quite a few legislation firms, together with Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Back again then, quite a few of the Hunt youngsters, whose fortune will come from the oil and gasoline industry, have been hardly out of superior college.

“It’s been a fantastic thing to be equipped to watch them mature and support them succeed,” Tompkins reported.

Outside Enable

The Hunt family’s portfolio of property span private equity, actual estate, and sporting activities, and they all have to have distinctive sorts of authorized knowledge, Tompkins stated. That necessitates a “well-established community of exterior attorneys,” he stated, generally in the Dallas location.

They incorporate Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton affiliate Robert Hough II for intellectual residence, Coats Rose lover Michael Saks for serious estate and design, and Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz husband or wife Michael Hutchens for employment regulation matters.

Alan Tompkins poses with trophy from Chiefs’ 2020 Tremendous Bowl acquire

Tompkins mentioned Katten Muchin Rosenman partners William Rivers and Victor Zanetti get the get in touch with for corporate function and that Unity Hunt also normally turns to Dallas-based mostly solo practitioner Cristin Adam to help on family members actual estate issues.

Inside of the Hunt household business, Tompkins explained he’s just just one of several attorneys who support “make points take place and retain things running” for its corporate namesake.

James O’Sullivan, a previous assistant typical counsel and director of land administration at Unity Hunt, final calendar year was named normal counsel for FC Dallas.

Unity Hunt’s president, Steven Caple, is a previous standard counsel at Novo Networks Inc. The Chiefs have their possess club counsel in Christopher Shea, who is also the team’s vice president of football functions.

Shea, who was unavailable for comment, is the place individual for all Chiefs-linked authorized issues. That lawful slate involves everything from participant overall health and labor issues to income cap and NFL affairs, Tompkins mentioned.

‘Great Run’

Tompkins explained he selected to continue to be residence in Dallas and check out the Tremendous Bowl with mates and loved ones, all of whom are Chiefs supporters, alternatively than vacation to Glendale, Ariz., for the key celebration for the reason that he’s been busy with tasks.

The Chiefs have appeared in 3 out of the earlier 4 Tremendous Bowls, winning two of them and shedding to Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021.

Tompkins, a western Kentucky indigenous who sales opportunities a foundation to advertise bluegrass tunes, like Chiefs head mentor Andy Reid, has no strategies to retire from operating for the Hunt spouse and children.

“I’ve had a wonderful run with this family members in excess of the earlier 20 many years, but I also have a great 13-calendar year-old daughter who desires to complete non-public faculty and school,” Tompkins mentioned. “I’m not setting up on slowing down at any time soon.”