Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Waller Lansden helps businesses and individuals throughout the United States and abroad achieve financial and strategic goals in a wide range of transactional, regulatory and litigation matters.

Waller Lansden's deep roster of experienced business lawyers addresses the legal needs of clients in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, commercial finance, securities, restructuring, real estate, tax and the expansion or relocation of business operations.

A trusted advisor to many of the leading companies in the highly regulated healthcare industry, Waller Lansden has earned a national reputation for creative insight and professional commitment and was recognized recently as one of the nation's largest healthcare law firms by Modern Healthcare.

Waller Lansden has ranked among "America's Best Corporate Law Firms" by Corporate Board Member magazine since 2000, and 71 Waller Lansden partners are AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Best Practices: Responding to an Immediate but Previously Unforseen Employee Compliance Threat
Robert E. Boston, July 6, 2011
Individuals who suffered losses in the May 2010 floods in the federally declared disaster area that encompassed much of Western and Middle Tennessee have until April 18, 2011 to amend their 2009 federal income tax returns to claim their loss in 2009 rather than 2010. Amending 2009 returns would...

Additional Information About Accountable Care Organizations
David C. Head,J. Reginald Hill,Nora L. Liggett,Kim Harvey Looney, April 11, 2011
As we stated in our bulletin last week, on March 31st, the federal government outlined proposed actions relating to Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key component of the healthcare reform legislation (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) enacted in March 2010. In this bulletin, we provide some...

Estates of Decedents Passing in 2010 - Extension of Election to Opt Out of Estate Tax and Allocation of Basis to Assets
Aaron B. Flinn,J. Leigh Griffith,Richard A. Johnson,G. Michael Yopp, April 11, 2011
The April 18, 2011 deadline for filing Form 8939 ¿ Allocation of Increase in Basis for Property Acquired From a Decedent ¿ has been extended indefinitely by the Internal Revenue Service. Form 8939 is an informational return used to document the basis, for income tax purposes, of...