BYU Law School alumnus Todd Farlow Maynes ‘87 will give the 2016 Honored Alumni Lecture on Thursday, October 13, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. in room 205.
Maynes is a partner for Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago. He has worked as the lead tax advisor in many bankruptcies and restructurings for United Airlines, Conseco, Calpine, Charter Communications, Visteon, and WR Grace. He is the chairman of the Planning Committee for the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference.
Maynes has been named in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, the Legal 500 and Illinois’ Super Lawyers. He has published numerous articles on tax matters and speaks at tax conferences. He teaches bankruptcy taxation at Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Chicago.