Finance, Land Use & Municipal Law, Public Finance, Real Estate

Timothy C. Taylor focuses his practice primarily on real estate and lending transactions. He routinely represents both buyers and sellers in all types of real estate transactions, and he has considerable experience representing both landlords and tenants in commercial leasing transactions. His practice includes representing individuals and businesses from local investors to public companies in all aspects of real estate, from acquisition and development, to ownership and management, and to subdivision and disposition. Mr. Taylor devotes a significant amount of his practice to land acquisition and development, particularly with respect to residential subdivisions and mixed use developments. Mr. Taylor also works with local governments on land use and development issues for his clients, and he has extensive experience in the creation and implementation of "traditional neighborhood developments" and related New Urbanism projects.

Mr. Taylor also represents financial institutions in a wide variety of lending transactions. In representing banks and other lenders, as well as borrowers, Mr. Taylor has developed significant skills in all aspects of general commercial lending and in commercial and residential real estate lending. He also has experience in the representation of lenders in loan workouts and restructuring, foreclosures, and loan sales. Mr. Taylor participated in the Resident Attorney Program of Bank of America in 1991, working as an in-house counsel for that year. In addition to real estate and lending transactions, Mr. Taylor works closely with other attorneys at Jackson Walker on matters such as the selection and formation of entities for real estate transactions, asset and stock sales, and finance transactions.

Mr. Taylor is an active leader in numerous civic, church, and community activities.

In 2003, Mr. Taylor served as President of The Real Estate Council of Austin (www.recaonline.com) and chaired RECA's Executive Committee and Board of Directors, as well as sitting on the boards for both the RECA Good Government PAC and the RECA Business MPAC. He is continuing his leadership in RECA, serving on the Presidents' Council, the Board, Executive Committee, and Good Government PAC.

Mr. Taylor is also on the Board of Directors of The Seton Fund (www.setonfund.org) and serves on its real estate committee. In 2007, he became active with the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (www.myhaam.org), serving as HAAM Benefit Day committee chairman. He continued in that role in 2008, also joining the HAAM Board of Directors. Mr. Taylor is again chairing the HAAM Benefit Day committee in 2009, and in 2010 was elected chairman of the HAAM Board of Directors.

Mr. Taylor joined the Board of Directors of the Greater Austin Economic Development Corporation in 2003, and he continues to serve on that Board and as its general counsel. He is also on the board of directors of Leadership Austin (www.leadershipaustin.org). Mr. Taylor also serves on of the Community Advisory Board for Caritas of Austin (www.caritasofaustin.org), having chaired that board in 1996 and in 1998.

In 2006, Mr. Taylor was appointed to the City of Austin's Affordable Housing Incentives Task Force. Elected as a Co-Chair of that task force, Mr. Taylor helped guide a diverse group of affordable housing advocates, neighborhood activists, real estate developers, and other stakeholders through a collaborative process that culminated with the Austin City Council's passage of an affordable housing incentives ordinance in 2007. Mr. Taylor remains involved in affordable housing issues in Austin, including working with the City's Neighborhood Housing & Community Development Department and its Housing Bond Review Committee.

Mr. Taylor has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce as well as General Counsel for the Chamber in 2001 and 2002. He was President of the Headliners Club in 2004, and served on the Board of Trustees for twelve years, from 1997 to 2009. He is a past president and board member of the Young Men's Business League and the Austin YMBL Sunshine Camps, and also served on the Board of Directors of the YMBL Sunshine Foundation. Mr. Taylor has been a long time supporter of the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, being a founding member of the Children's Hospital Council and serving as co-chair of that Council in 1997, and also having co-chaired the 1997 Children's Hospital Gala. Mr. Taylor has served many other charitable and civic organizations in Austin, and he has been a Director of the Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Washington & Lee University Central Texas Alumni Chapter, Center for Battered Women (now SafePlace), Ronald McDonald House and the West Austin Youth Association.

Mr. Taylor is an Elder in Westminster Presbyterian Church of Austin, Texas. He served on the Session and Board of Trustees from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2004, and he was Clerk of the Session in 1998.

• 1985, Texas