 Thomas Pasch is Vice President and General Counsel of the Lenfest Media Group. Mr. Pasch is a graduate of the University of Toledo (with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Master of Arts in English), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (with a Ph.D. in English Literature) and The Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. Following graduation from law school, he practiced law with the Philadelphia based law firms of Braemer, Ableson & Hitchner; Hoyle, Morris & Kerr; Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhodes; and Saul Ewing, LLC before joining the Lenfest Group, LLC as General Counsel in 2000, representing the business and personal interests of the Lenfest family members. In 2004 he began full time representation of the business and personal interests of H. Chase Lenfest.
As a partner at Saul Ewing, he headed the Telecommunications Group practice area. His practice concentrated on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities law transactions for clients in the telecommunications industry. His clients included Lenfest Communications, Inc., then one of the twelve largest cable television companies in the United States with cable television systems in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, as well as interests in France and Australia. In January 2000, Mr. Pasch led the transaction by which the cable television operations of Lenfest Communications were sold to Comcast Corporation. Mr. Pasch now represents the varied business interests of H. Chase Lenfest , including his Lenfest Enterprises, LLC holding company, Lenfest Media Group, LLC an advertising and related ventures business, and Mr. Lenfest's charitable foundation. Those interests include software for traffic and billing and management of cable advertising and marketing promotion (Broadway Systems), investments in development stage companies, real estate development abroad, a television station (WMCN) and long-form advertising.
Before practicing law, Mr. Pasch taught English literature, composition and graduate research as an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University and an Instructor at the University of Toledo. Mr. Pasch has performed pro bono legal services through the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, served on the Central Board of Settlement Music School and is presently President of and a member of the Board of the Commonwealth Youthchoirs, Inc.
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