Todd S. Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of Hemisphere Development and a Managing Director of Hemisphere Advisors. He received his bachelor of business administration from the University of Michigan, with Distinction, and his law degree from The George Washington University, with Honors. Mr. Davis also was formerly a partner in Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP and was Co-Chairman of the firm's Environmental Practice Group.

Mr. Davis focuses his work on all aspects of redeveloping contaminated property and the environmental aspects of real estate transactions. In this role, Mr. Davis has actively acquired numerous sites for Hemisphere’s portfolio and provided strategic advice in hundreds of transactions, including a number of the nation’s largest and most sophisticated brownfield redevelopments. These transactions typically have involved participating in relevant state voluntary cleanup programs, coordinating applicable financing alternatives, negotiating public incentives, and the manuscripting and placement of pertinent environmental insurance products.

Mr. Davis has been widely published in treatises, periodicals and newspapers. He is the principal author of an extensive 1,100-page treatise on redeveloping brownfield sites nationally, entitled Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property (2nd Ed. 2002), published by the American Bar Association (ABA). This treatise has been the most successful book published by the ABA’s Environmental Section. Mr. Davis is on the editorial board of Brownfield News, the brownfield industry’s leading business publication. He writes a regular column for Brownfield News featuring practical advice on brownfield development transactions called “Ask the Expert.” He is a contributing author to Turning Brownfields Into Greenbacks (1998), a book published by the Urban Land Institute highlighting successful brownfields redevelopment strategies. Mr. Davis authored a chapter on brownfields redevelopment in Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions (3rd Ed. ABA 2004). Mr. Davis authored a chapter in Implementing Institutional Controls at Brownfields and Other Contaminated Sites, a book published by the American Bar Association (1st Ed. 2003). He also is an author of The Underground Storage Tank Manual (1st Ed. 1994), a comprehensive publication on Ohio underground storage tank law.

Mr. Davis testified before Congress in 2005 on proposed legislative enhancements to encourage brownfield redevelopment. Mr. Davis has been a featured speaker in numerous national forums on various environmental topics associated with redeveloping contaminated real estate. Recent presentations include the plenary session of U.S. EPA’s national brownfields conference, Brownfields 2001, and the opening ceremonies at HazWaste World SuperFund XVIII (December 1997, Washington, DC), where he was selected to participate on a panel with U.S. EPA Administrator Carol Browner and U.S. House of Representatives Environmental Committee Chairman Michael Oxley. Other recent speaking engagements include: U.S. EPA’s national brownfield conferences Brownfields 2005 (Denver, CO), Brownfields 2003 (Portland, OR), and Brownfields 2002 (Charlotte, NC); The U.S. Economic Development Administration 2003 National Conference (May 2003, Washington, D.C.); The RTM Communications Contaminated Property Transactions Conferences (April 2005, Washington, D.C. and October 2005 Boston, MA); The White House Conference on Sustainable Development (June 2000, Columbus, OH); The 2000 ABA SONREEL Fall Meeting (October 2000, New Orleans, LA); U.S. EPA’s Brownfields ‘99 (December 1999, Dallas, TX); The 1998 ABA SONREEL Annual Meeting (March 1998, Keystone, CO); U.S. EPA’s Brownfields ‘98 (November 1998, Los Angeles, CA); The U.S. Federal Reserve’s 1997 Annual Community Reinvestment Forum - Sustainable Community Development (October 1997, Dublin, OH); The 1997 Ohio Governors Brownfield Redevelopment Conference (October 1997, Columbus, OH); U.S. EPA’s Brownfields ‘97 (September 1997, Kansas City, KS); The 1997 ABA Annual Convention (August 1997, San Francisco, CA); and The 1996 National Governors Association Conference (August 1996, Cleveland, OH). He also has been a featured speaker on the ABA’s Satellite Seminar, Brownfields Transactions: Making the Deals Work (March 1997, Washington, DC, broadcast via satellite to over 80 locations) and appeared on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” (August 1997).

Mr. Davis is a member of the national Board of Directors for the National Brownfield Association, the brownfield industry’s largest trade association. He also is a Vice Chairman of the ABA’s Brownfields Task Force and a Vice Chairman of the ABA’s Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee. On a local level, he participated in the Rulemaking Committee for Ohio’s Voluntary Action Program, as well as the Five-Year Rule Review Committee, and is a member of the Ohio Brownfields Finance Partnership.