Todd spends most of his time practicing in the firm’s Business, Tax & Securities area, as well as its Estate Planning & Probate area. He joined Kegler Brown in 1996 after spending two years practicing with Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mergers and Acquisitions
As chairman of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions area, Todd focuses on advising clients on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, reorganizations and joint ventures. He advises sellers and buyers, as well as private equity groups sponsoring leveraged recapitalizations and reorganizations. Todd has experience in representing clients from a broad spectrum of industries, including manufacturing, health care, restaurant, franchising, retail, building and construction materials, technology, advertising and marketing and professional services.
Business and Tax
Todd has extensive experience with a wide variety of business and income tax planning matters relating to C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships. He regularly represents clients with respect to business formation, shareholder agreements, complex partnership and limited company agreements and confidentiality and non-competition agreements.
Estate Planning
Additionally, Todd focuses on advising individuals, often wealthy entrepreneurs, with respect to estate planning matters. His experience includes structuring and implementing sophisticated estate planning strategies for clients involving GRATs, dynasty trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, family limited partnerships and limited liability companies.
Todd spends most of his time practicing in the firm’s Business, Tax & Securities area, as well as its Estate Planning & Probate area. He joined Kegler Brown in 1996 after spending two years practicing with Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mergers and Acquisitions
As chairman of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions area, Todd focuses on advising clients on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, reorganizations and joint ventures. He advises sellers and buyers, as well as private equity groups sponsoring leveraged recapitalizations and reorganizations. Todd has experience in representing clients from a broad spectrum of industries, including manufacturing, health care, restaurant, franchising, retail, building and construction materials, technology, advertising and marketing and professional services.
Business and Tax Todd has extensive experience with a wide variety of business and income tax planning matters relating to C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships. He regularly represents clients with respect to business formation, shareholder agreements, complex partnership and limited company agreements and confidentiality and non-competition agreements.
Estate Planning Additionally, Todd focuses on advising individuals, often wealthy entrepreneurs, with respect to estate planning matters. His experience includes structuring and implementing sophisticated estate planning strategies for clients involving GRATs, dynasty trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, family limited partnerships and limited liability companies.
Career Highlights - Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®.
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Recognized as an up-and-coming attorney who has "a fantastic negotiating style and offers good, practical advice" by Chambers USA, a service that honors "America’s Leading Business Lawyers."
- Selected as a 2005, 2006 and 2007 “Ohio Rising Star” by Law & Politics Magazine, a publication that recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state, based on voting by individuals previously identified by the magazine as “Ohio Super Lawyers®.” Ohio Super Lawyers are said to represent the top 5 percent of the legal profession.
- Chairman of firm’s associate hiring committee.
Professional Memberships - American Bar Association, Section of Business Law- Mergers & Acquisitions committee, member
- Columbus Bar Association, Business Taxation, Estate and Gift Taxation committees, member
- Ohio State Bar Association, member
- The Childhood League, Board of Directors, member
- Leadership Columbus, 2001 graduate
Bar Admissions Education
Juris Doctorate (1994)
Vanderbilt University School of Law Vanderbilt Law Review, associate editor
Bachelor of Arts, Economics (1991)
DePauw University
Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa