Ancillary Services

Frost Brown Todd is in the business of making things happen. That's why we continually develop ancillary resources and services that point the way to growth and innovation — to help business leaders leverage opportunities.

Bates Capitol Group: Government Affairs Advocacy at the Federal & State Level

With advocates in state capitols and in D.C., Bates Capitol Group helps clients develop strategies, build political relationships, and resolve conflicts that make a real difference for individual businesses or organizations. BCG services include strategic government relations planning, legislative lobbying services, and public policy advocacy and development.

FK MidAmerican Consultants: Expand Your Automotive Business

Formed through a strategic partnership of business lawyers, accountants, and consultants, FK provides professional comprehensive business consulting services to the Chinese automotive sector. FK advises manufacturers and corporations on a myriad of complex business matters; however, our main goal is to help businesses navigate the issues that come with doing business in the U.S., particularly from the financial, legal, and logistics perspective.

incentis group: Tax and Credit Incentives to Spur Growth

incentis group is all about growing business. A national practice of incentives and credits professionals with extensive experience throughout the United States. These professionals have secured hundreds of millions of dollars of incentives and tax credits benefits for Fortune 500 corporations as well as middle market companies, including:
  • Incentives Structuring & Negotiating
  • Tax Burden & Incentives Analyses
  • Incentives Enhancement Strategies
  • Incentives & Credits Compliance
  • Multi-State Credits & Incentives Reviews
  • Site Selection & Location Analysis
  • Economic & Fiscal Impact Studies
  • Economic Development Consulting
  • New Market Tax Credit

New Markets Tax Credit Group: Finding Avenues to Grow Markets and Communities

Seeking to expand on a long history of community service and capitalizing on the backgrounds and abilities of many corporate lawyers, Frost Brown Todd organized a community development entity to facilitate New Markets Tax Credit investments in Kentucky, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Nashville, Tennessee. The NMTC team advises Community Development Entities (CDEs), investors, and other companies interested in participating in the NMTC program. Our team of lawyers will advise you and advocate on your behalf regarding the regulatory, tax, corporate, securities and other issues related to organizing and operating CDEs and making or receiving an NMTC investment.

Multi-State Title Agency, Ltd.

Multi-State Title Agency, Ltd. is an ancillary and related real estate business wholly owned and operated by Frost Brown Todd. Multi-State is authorized to issue title insurance directly in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, and Tennessee. It is a local and regional agent for Chicago Title Insurance Company, First American Title Insurance Company, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Lawyer's Title Insurance Corporation, Stewart Title Guaranty Company, Ohio Bar Title Insurance Company, and The Guarantee Title and Trust Company. It also has a national agency contract with First American Title Insurance Company that enables it to provide title insurance policies and services throughout the United States.

U.S.-German Strategic Alliance: Frost Brown Todd and Wahlert Rechtsanwalte

Frost Brown Todd LLC and Wahlert Rechtsanwälte are proud to announce their strategic U.S.-German alliance, which creates seamless legal service for U.S. companies doing business in Europe, especially Germany, and for European companies doing business in the U.S. FBT has more than 350 attorneys in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee, and Wahlert has eleven attorneys in Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, which is centrally located near France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, and other German industrial centers such as Bavaria.

This strategic alliance is a result of the firms' participation in MULTILAW, a global network of law firms, chaired by Jobst von Wahlert. Stuttgart is the industrial center of Germany with a strong automotive and manufacturing presence, including the headquarters of Daimler-Chrysler, Porsche, Robert Bosch, the European operations of Whirlpool, the German headquarters of IBM and Hewlett Packard, Reader's Digest, and large branches of Siemens and Agilent. The FBT states are home to many German companies such as AEG, Bayer, BASF, Beiersdorf, Bosch, Continental, Degussa, Fischbach, ThyssenKrupp, Süd-Chemie, Linde, Montaplast, Osram, Balluff, Faber-Castell, Bertelsmann, E ON, Klockner, Kaltenbach, Mahle, and Siemens.

Morris Communications

Using their strong connections with Ohio’s political leadership, Morris Communications helps clients get what they need and avoid what they don’t want from Ohio government. The firm also provides strategic public relations counsel for corporations, nonprofits and government agencies. Specifically, Morris Communications delivers:
  • Ohio Government Relations Services
  • Legislative and Administrative Lobbying
  • Public Policy Advocacy and Development
  • Full range public and media relations services, including crisis and litigation message managment
 
 U.S. - Chinese Strategic Alliance: Frost Brown Todd and Hubei Sunshine Law Firm
Frost Brown Todd has forged a strategic alliance with Chinese law firm, Hubei Sunshine Law Firm. The firm is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. This is the first alliance between any United States-based and Hubei Province-based law firm. The alliance will create seamless legal service for U.S. companies that do business in China, especially the Hubei Province, and for Chinese companies doing business in the United States.

Wuhan is the center of industry, finance, commerce, culture, education, science and research, and is also a national shipping and communications hub. Hubei was already home to operations of businesses from Frost Brown Todd's region. Together, Frost Brown Todd and Sunshine aim to help businesses succeed in China.