David Taylor, Founding Partner

David Taylor founded his first law firm in 1999 after leaving a large regional law firm in order to provide more complex and focused legal services. David founded Taylor | Foley in 2013 as a new venture to meet the growing and complex needs of clients. David has led Taylor | Foley with the continuing philosophy that our firm will provide our clients with exceptional client service and uniquely constructed transactional methods. David focuses his practice in the Southeast, but this philosophy has led David and the attorneys in his firm to perform work for clients throughout the country and internationally as well.

David Taylor: Experience

David's practice is transactional in nature and encompasses all areas of taxation and asset protection law. The scope of David's work spans from large organizations to small entities, almost entirely privately owned. David's experience and penchant for effective and creative transactional structures makes him a distinctive attorney that is indispensable to his clients. His approach is always one of integration, combining taxation efficiency; asset management and protection; organizational and asset succession; and effective management structure.

Examples of transactional components are: entity choice, structure and governance documentation; structure and documentation of privately owned companies to more widely held corporations; design and implementation of a corporate succession and reorganization plan for large organizations; implementation of sophisticated estate tax planning transactions using specially designed trust and financial instrument components; administration of estates both large and small, often with complex technical issues; implementation of complex income taxation planning and employee plans for operating companies; anti-takeover planning for entities and corporations; and structure and completion of entity mergers and acquisitions in a manner to achieve minimum taxation impact for the parties.

David Taylor: Education

Clemson University – Bachelor of Science in Accounting; 1993

University of South Carolina School of Law – Juris Doctorate (J.D.); 1996

University of Denver Sturm College of Law – Masters of Law in Taxation (LL.M.), summa cum laude; 1997

David Taylor: Professional and Community Activities, Affiliations and Honors

South Carolina Bar Association

East Cooper Baptist Church, Member & Greeter

Stephen Minister