What we say about the firm's legal practice in United States
Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts
Within M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m), tier 5
Frost Brown Todd LLC operates throughout nine offices in five states, including Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia. The practice regularly counsels Fortune 500 companies, insurance businesses, financial services firms, manufacturers, media companies, insurance providers, minority businesses, and entrepreneurs. Clients include AK Steel, Chase Bank, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Turner Construction Company and United Parcel Service. In Kentucky, co-M&A chair Edward Glasscock is recommended.
Real estate and construction
Within Construction (including construction litigation), tier 4
Clients praise the lawyers at Frost Brown Todd LLC as being ‘highly competent and reacting in an extremely timely fashion, with accurate and appropriate actions and recommendations’. The firm acts for owners, designers and sureties, while maintaining a strong focus on the representation of contractors. In 2010 the firm welcomed new associate Amanda Earl to practice construction law in the litigation department of the Cincinnati office. With construction lawyers located across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, the team is well resourced and provides advice on risk management, insurance and contract negotiation, as well as handling a wide range of disputes and claims. Recent headline work includes advising Louisville Arena Authority on the construction of the KFC Yum! Center, a 22,000-seat basketball and multi-purpose arena that opened in October 2010, on the Ohio River Waterfront; the team was involved in various aspects of the project, including government relations, construction dispute resolution and environmental issues. Other representative clients include Turner Construction Company, Baker Concrete Construction, Bowen Engineering and Ben Hur Construction. Scott Gurney is chairman of the construction practice and ‘knows the industry inside out’. John Higgins is also recommended, for his experience in construction litigation, and is ‘extremely competent and highly professional’; he has litigated across numerous US states and has argued cases in 64 of Ohio’s 88 counties.