Lynn E. Fowler

Lynn E. Fowler

Lynn Fowler, Chair of the Corporate Tax team, focuses his practice on corporate and business tax law. He specializes in helping clients develop and implement tax-efficient strategies for varied business formation, financing, operations, and disposition transactions. He has also been the lead tax advisor on numerous taxable and tax-free M&A transactions as well as a variety of other strategic corporate transactions.

Selected Experience

· Planning and implementation of spin-off by Equifax of its card and check processing businesses.

· Tax counsel to Certegy in its tax-free reorganization transaction with Fidelity Information Services.

· Counsel to several clients on non-taxable partnership contribution transactions, including avoidance of IRC §707 treatment as sale.

· Counsel to publicly traded hotel company in sale of stock, including distribution of unwanted assets in tax-efficient manner.

Background

· Numerous professional publications, including: Publicly Traded Partnerships published in Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances (Practicing Law Institute 2006); Selected Tax Issues of Private Investment Funds published in Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances (Practicing Law Institute 2000).

· Listed in Chambers USA 2008, Georgia Trend's 2009 Legal Elite and Georgia SuperLawyers.

· Member of the State Bar of Georgia (Taxation Section), American Bar Association (Taxation Section; Committee on Partnership Taxation), and Atlanta Tax Forum.

· AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

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