TTB Law Updates

Tom Niekamp has decades of experience helping alcohol and tobacco industry members with TTB related matters.  After retiring from TTB in 2014, Tom entered private practice and advised numerous craft brewers, distilleries, wineries, cider makers, and small tobacco producers and importers.

 

Before private practice, Tom worked in the Assistant Chief Counsel’s office for the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau, (TTB) in Cincinnati, and its predecessor agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).  With ATF, he was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia alternatively, in the years 1992, 1997 and 2002.  He was named TTB's Outstanding Professional Employee of the Year in 2007 and Team Member Employee of the Year in 2010. Tom is now a regulatory consultant with Niekamp Law Ltd.