Todd is Chair of the firm's Corporate and Tax Practice Group. In that role, he leads, assigns, and manages client teams that handle the spectrum of business issues in a wide range of industries.
He is a corporate and commercial real estate attorney who focuses on tax credits and economic development incentives with passion for helping businesses prosper and grow. Todd has more than 25 years of experience representing clients in corporate law, commercial real estate transactions, hotel and apartment complex acquisitions, multi-use developments and business sales and acquisitions across a wide variety of industries. Todd also serves as outside general counsel and as a trusted advisor for many businesses and business owners across the region.
Todd has significant experience in economic development and incentives work related to new manufacturing plants, industrial expansions, and commercial/retail developments. Todd also assisted in the establishment of the first legally permitted moonshine manufacturing company in South Carolina.
Todd is dedicated to delivering top-notch client service and proactive legal strategies through timely communication, responsiveness, and attention to detail. Todd truly cares about the clients he represents and he believes that his personal commitment to each client's success is a distinguishing factor of his practice.
Outside of Nexsen Pruet, Todd is actively engaged in a wide range of civic and professional initiatives and has served in leadership and advisory positions for the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce, Hospice of the Upstate, Inc., Partnership for Healthy Community and Military Transition Services, Inc. among other non-profit organizations.
- University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1989
- Furman University, B.A., 1985
- South Carolina State Bar
- United States District Court, District of South Carolina
- Fellow, Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative, 2017
- South Carolina Economic Developer's Association
- Upstate SC Alliance
- General Counsel and Board of Directors, Greenville Chamber of Commerce
- Coach - Minority Business Accelerator Program
- Former Chairperson, Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
- Board of Directors, Past Chairperson, Hospice of the Upstate, Inc.
- Former Board Member, Military Transition Services, Inc.
- Former Committee Advisor and Facilitator, Junior Leadership Anderson
- Leadership Anderson Graduate
- Greenville Business Magazine's Legal Elite of the Upstate, 2018 in Mergers & Acquisitions; Government
- Certified Legal Lean Sigma® and Project Management Yellow Belt
Overview
Todd is Chair of the firm's Corporate and Tax Practice Group. In that role, he leads, assigns, and manages client teams that handle the spectrum of business issues in a wide range of industries.
He is a corporate and commercial real estate attorney who focuses on tax credits and economic development incentives with passion for helping businesses prosper and grow. Todd has more than 25 years of experience representing clients in corporate law, commercial real estate transactions, hotel and apartment complex acquisitions, multi-use developments and business sales and acquisitions across a wide variety of industries. Todd also serves as outside general counsel and as a trusted advisor for many businesses and business owners across the region.
Todd has significant experience in economic development and incentives work related to new manufacturing plants, industrial expansions, and commercial/retail developments. Todd also assisted in the establishment of the first legally permitted moonshine manufacturing company in South Carolina.
Todd is dedicated to delivering top-notch client service and proactive legal strategies through timely communication, responsiveness, and attention to detail. Todd truly cares about the clients he represents and he believes that his personal commitment to each client's success is a distinguishing factor of his practice.
Outside of Nexsen Pruet, Todd is actively engaged in a wide range of civic and professional initiatives and has served in leadership and advisory positions for the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce, Hospice of the Upstate, Inc., Partnership for Healthy Community and Military Transition Services, Inc. among other non-profit organizations.
- Fellow, Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative, 2017
- South Carolina Economic Developer's Association
- Upstate SC Alliance
- General Counsel and Board of Directors, Greenville Chamber of Commerce
- Coach - Minority Business Accelerator Program
- Former Chairperson, Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
- Board of Directors, Past Chairperson, Hospice of the Upstate, Inc.
- Former Board Member, Military Transition Services, Inc.
- Former Committee Advisor and Facilitator, Junior Leadership Anderson
- Leadership Anderson Graduate
- Greenville Business Magazine's Legal Elite of the Upstate, 2018 in Mergers & Acquisitions; Government
- Certified Legal Lean Sigma® and Project Management Yellow Belt
Speaking & Writing
Outside Nexsen Pruet
When Todd has free time, you will likely find him on his boat fishing with his wife Joy. According to Todd, "Joy does not like to fish very much but she joins me so she can read Shakespeare plays and David Foster-Wallace novels to me because, in Joy's words, I should be learning something while I am wasting my time fishing."
