Allen represents clients in business, corporate, and contract law matters, including negotiated mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and business alliances, business planning, contract negotiation, and corporate governance. He also assists clients with tax planning for a wide range of business transactions, focusing primarily on corporate and partnership tax planning for closely-held businesses. His clients include businesses in the automotive, manufacturing, and technology industries, as well as individual investors and entrepreneurs, corporate executives and directors.
Allen is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive), and prior to attending law school, he practiced as a Senior Accountant with Deloitte & Touche LLP. He was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1996 and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Birmingham Bar Association. Allen frequently lectures on various corporate, tax and contract matters affecting businesses, and, in recent years, he has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Cumberland School of Law where he taught Accounting for Lawyers.
Allen received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1996. While in law school, Allen served as Editor of the Alabama Law Review, and was a member of Order of the Coif and the Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society. In 2001, he received his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Alabama.
Memberships & Bar Associations
American Bar Association
Alabama State Bar
Birmingham Bar Association