Alan Tompkins, a top lawyer for the family of late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, said Sunday’s victory was a high point in his 20-year association with the club.
“I don’t think I took a breath during the last three minutes,” Tompkins said of the team’s 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles, adding that he’s relished “watching the development and progress of the Chiefs.”
Tompkins is general counsel for Unity Hunt Inc., the parent company of the Hunt family’s business holdings, with sporting assets that include the NFL’s Chiefs, Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas, and Kansas City Mavericks, a minor league hockey team.
He spends most of his time handling corporate matters and transactions, real estate projects, and financings and investments, while also dealing with major sponsorships, trademarks and copyrights, Tompkins said. “I help the family with management of their trusts and legal affairs,” he said.
He also helps “with Chiefs matters from time to time, when Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt calls on me.” Clark Hunt is one of Lamar Hunt’s three sons and a part-owner of the Chiefs, whose star quarterback is Patrick Mahomes.
Tompkins started as general counsel in 2003 after working at several law firms, including Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Back then, many of the Hunt children, whose fortune comes from the oil and gas industry, were barely out of...
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