Industries

• Franchise & Hospitality
• Manufacturing
  • Consumable Goods
  • Retail & Household Goods

Practices

• Construction
• Corporate Law
  • General Counsel Services
• International Services
  • Japan Desk
  • Latin America Desk
• Private Client & Wealth Planning
• Tax

Languages

• English
• Spanish

Biography

Biography

Todd focuses his practice on serving private, closely held and/or family-owned businesses as their outside general counsel and trusted advisor on all legal and risk issues.  Besides a prior career as an Air Force officer, Todd also has unique background in construction law, where he has provided counsel on myriad legal issues affecting the industry in both private practice and as a general counsel. Prior to joining Frost Brown Todd, Todd served for seven years as the general counsel for Baker Concrete Construction Inc., the nation’s largest concrete construction specialty contractor, where he had daily oversight over the company’s legal, enterprise risk management, contracts, ethics, compliance, political lobbying and government relations functions. Prior to Baker, Todd was a partner with a large Cincinnati law firm where he gained substantial litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute experience in assisting the firm’s clients with resolving risk issues that threatened their profitable growth or continued sustainability.

Todd serves as outside general counsel to private and family-owned businesses of all sizes. He provides timely, practical, strategic, and value-added insight regarding issues related to enterprise risk management, contract drafting and negotiation, litigation and dispute resolution oversight, corporate restructuring, tactical and strategic HR issues, intellectual property, and government compliance. He also offers business advice in areas such as succession planning and strategic plan development. He takes a proactive approach on identifying and providing innovative solutions to issues impeding his clients’ continued development and success. He also advises his clients on potential strategies for seizing current market opportunities while concurrently and effectively leveraging the risks commensurate with these opportunities.