Taylor French > McGuireWoods LLP > Charlotte, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
201 N Tryon St.
Suite 3000
Charlotte, NC 28202-2146
United States
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Taylor French

Position
Taylor French is co-chair of the firm’s employee benefits and executive compensation group. His employee benefits practice covers a wide-range of traditional executive compensation and employee benefits matters along with a variety of inter-disciplinary practice areas and industries that are affected by executive compensation and employee benefits laws.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
(Leading partners)Acclaimed for its ‘deep technical expertise coupled with practical knowledge’, McGuireWoods LLP‘s employee benefits and tax practice covers both traditional benefit and compensation matters as well as issues demanding a broader, multidisciplinary approach. The team is led from Charlotte by Taylor French, whose expertise covers the range of benefit, compensation and retirement plan design and implementation for clients that range from large financial entities to nonprofit organizations. Also in Charlotte is Allison Tanner, who counsels clients on plan issues arising under ERISA and the IRC. The leading lawyer in the Richmond office is Robert Wynne, whose ‘ability to distill complex legal concepts into actionable advice’ makes him a specialist in plan design in the context of M&A, and Chicago’s Carolyn Trenda leads in health, welfare and fringe benefit plan design.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design United States > Labor and employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense