Practice Groups

Tax, Corporate and Securities Law, Estate Planning, Contracts and Commericial Real Estate, Business and Commercial Law

Education

- Vanderbilt University, B.A. 1974
- University of Louisville, J.D. 1978
- University of Miami, LL.M. in Taxation 1981

Admitted

- All State and Federal bar Associations in Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Memberships

- Kentucky Bar Association
- Georgia Bar Association
- South Carolina Bar Association
- American Bar Association

Activities

Biography

John H. Muench was born in Louisville, Kentucky on June 9, 1952

Upon completing law school, Jack published the lead article in the American Bar Association's Family Law Quarterly on the impact of substantive due process theories as they apply in certain family law contexts. At the time, he was also a law clerk to Boyce F. Martin, Jr., Chief Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and he continued in that capacity when Judge Martin was named to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

After practicing for a year in Atlanta, Jack moved to Greenville, where he eventually became a partner and head of the tax department of Haynsworth, Marion, McKay and Guerard.

Jack is admitted to all state and federal bar associations in the states of Kentucky, Georgia and South Carolina, and is a member of the Bar of the United States Tax Court. He has been a member of the Special Problems and Sales, Exchanges and Basis committees of the Taxation Law Section of the American Bar Association.

Jack's career has featured distinguished service to the South Carolina Bar. He has served on the Section Councils of the Corporate, Banking and Securities and Taxation Sections of the Bar. He was chairperson of the Corporate, Banking and Securities Section in 2000, and presented the annual update speech on securities law at the Bar's annual meeting in 1997, 1998 and 2000. Jack serves as Immediate Past Chairperson of the Corporate, Banking and Securities Section, his second time through that officer track. He also serves as Immediate Past Chairperson of the Taxation Section.

Jack has also served or is serving on several ad hoc committees or task forces for the Bar regarding limited liability companies, law firm dissolution, and third-party opinion practice.

Jack's practice encompasses a wide variety of corporate and tax-related matters, all with a focus on adding significant value to entrepreneurial activities. His primary areas of expertise lie in the areas of entity formations, mergers and acquisitions, partnership, corporate and individual income tax, estate planning, and securities and corporate law. From March of 1987 until October 2008, he was Certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a Specialist in Taxation Law. Thereafter, the increasingly non-tax nature of his practice precluded that formal designation.  

Jack is an avid hunter and sportsman and enjoys fishing and scuba diving.