Todd advises clients on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, partnership and other joint venture arrangements, capital markets and private financing transactions, spin-offs, and bankruptcy and insolvency restructurings. He has extensive experience in planning and structuring transactions involving natural resources (including joint ventures to exploit wet and dry shale plays), alternative energy, technology, and health care. In addition, Todd has represented numerous private equity funds, master limited partnerships (MLPs), real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other pooled investment vehicles in connection with capital formations, acquisitions, and divestitures. Paul holds a BBA in Accounting and a BA in Economics, both with high honors from the University of Texas as well as a JD with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.