Todd is a strategic advisor and counsel to publicly held and private companies on a wide array of employment law matters. Todd’s business-minded approach and commitment to client success has made him a go-to partner for private equity firms, global enterprises, and publicly traded companies in the technology, hospitality, life sciences, healthcare, and financial services industries. Todd’s practice focuses heavily on handling complex employment issues in connection with and resulting from mergers and acquisitions (both buy- and sell-side), financings, spinoffs, and divestitures.
Todd leverages and draws on his extensive litigation experience to assist clients in avoiding adversarial proceedings by focusing on improving the workplace and all aspects of the employment relationship through crafting and implementing robust policies and procedures and meaningful training and guidance.
Todd’s practice includes advising on compliance with various laws affecting the workplace, such as the FLSA, ADA, Title VII, ADEA, FMLA, NLRA and similar state and local laws. Todd advises and counsels clients on crafting and implementing multi-state policies and procedures, hiring practices, employee discipline and discharge decisions, and issues related to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, pregnancy and disability, accommodations, leaves of absence, paid time off and vacation, and multi-jurisdictional paid sick and safe leave laws and paid family and medical leaves. Todd is experienced in conducting wage and hour audits, advising clients on employee/independent contractor classification issues, and conducting and supervising internal investigations, as well as investigations conducted by administrative agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state/local human rights commissions. Todd also assists clients in drafting employment, independent contractor, and separation agreements, as well as restrictive covenants to protect employers’ business interests and confidential information or trade secrets.
Prior to joining VKHH, Todd was a partner in the employment practice group of a major global law firm.
