Mr. Rowland is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and a member of the tax group.  He has a broad range of experience in federal income and estate tax planning as a result of representation of closely held and family-owned businesses.  He has planned and negotiated the sales and acquisitions of corporate and partnership entities and planned for reorganizations, redemptions, and admissions of new members.  Mr. Rowland’s practice in personal planning for business owners includes development of wills, trusts, insurance planning, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor trusts, charitable trusts and partnership structures.

Career highlights include:

• Assisting a variety of family-owned companies in planning for succession ownership
• Assisting high net worth families in developing and implementing gift and estate planning strategies

Mr. Rowland is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the Columbus Bar Association and the Ohio Oil and Gas Association.

Mr. Rowland has presented at seminars on requirements for the use of private split dollar insurance agreements.

Mr. Rowland received his LL.M. from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.  He received his J.D. summa cum laude from The Ohio State University College of Law where he was the Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif.  He received his B.A. cum laude from Wittenberg University and was a member of Pi Sigma Alpha.

Honors and Awards

• Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 1983-2008
• Fellow of the Columbus Bar Foundation since 1985
• Ohio Super Lawyers, Tax, 2004-2006

News

• Vorys named the "2008 Leading Ohio Law Firm" by Best Lawyers