Todd M. Young
Partner, Attorney at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
American Bar AssociationChicago Bar AssociationThe ESOP AssociationChicago-Paris Sister Cities Committee, MemberU.S.A. Triathlon Foundation AmbassadorOut In Finance, Membership CommitteeEpiscopal Diocese of Chicago, Chancellor Emeritus; Chancellor, 2003 – 2016; Assistant Chancellor, 1995 – 2003Church of Our Saviour, Catechist, 6-9 AtriumSeabury Western Theological Seminary, Adjunct Professor, Canon Law Course, 2000 – 2004Works with buyers & sellers
About
Todd M. Young advises buyers and sellers of privately held and publicly traded companies on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. He represents trustees, lenders, and sponsors in employee stock ownership plan transactions. He serves as United States counsel when non-US entities buy or sell assets or companies in the states. He earned a 1983 JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a 1980 AB from Dartmouth College. He represents lenders and borrowers while they negotiate and close loan arrangements. For ten years he taught a course on mergers and acquisitions at Northwestern University Law School.
Who is a good fit for Todd M. Young
- Owners of privately held companies completing a merger, acquisition, or divestiture.
- Sponsors and trustees completing a transaction that uses an employee stock ownership plan.
- Non-US entities buying or selling assets or a company in the states.
Education and admissions
- Education
- University of Chicago Law School, JD, 1983
- Dartmouth College, AB, 1980
- Bar admissions
- Illinois
Recognition
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV® Peer Review Rating
- Leading Lawyers, Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Small, Closely & Privately Held Business Law
- Crain’s Chicago Business, Notable LGBTQ Executive, 2018
- Illinois Super Lawyers, 2005 – 2007
- University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law Review, Comment Editor
Specialties
Buy-side M&A representationSell-side M&A representation
Representative matters
As described on the firm’s website.
- Assisted UK-based insurance company in its sale of a group of related subsidiaries in the US and Bermuda, including complex interrelated post-closing servicing arrangements, revisions to internal governance documents, and negotiation of extended post-closing operational covenants.
- Represented a commercial lender in a series of loan agreements to a group of related family-office companies with a complex collateral package consisting of equity interests in closely-held investment funds. (lender side)
- Represent numerous engineering firms in roll-up acquisitions of varying sizes and complexity across the country. Purchase price consideration in these transactions has included cash, promissory notes, and equity of the buyer. (buyer side)
- Represent an Illinois insurance company in its complex reorganization, including analyzing changes in licensing and the structure of tax-exempt and taxable activities.
- Represent a number of ESOP-owned companies in ongoing corporate governance issues, both those that are intimately tied to their ESOP ownership and those that are more generic.
- Represent ESOP trustees in numerous transactions involving the sale of the sponsor company, as well as the reorganization and recapitalization of the ESOP company.
Deal profile
- Typical deal size
- Any deal size
- Remote work
- In-person / regional
Frequently Asked Questions
He is admitted to the Illinois bar.